Ten Great Ideas: Orders of Magnitude
| Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals the biggest misconceptions about the universe and we why have diffiulty appreciating the relative size of things. | Youtube. 2 mins. | |
| Awe-inspiring webpage where you can zoom in and out to see where humans fit into the tree of life | Link | onezoom.org. Do a search for 'humans' to give |
| Depths of lakes and oceans to scale | Link | Image from xkcd.com |
| The VERY SMALL | ||
| Hidden miracles of the natural world | Link | We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. Youtube. 7 mins. |
| The size of some SMALL objects in the universe, relative to a coffee bean.. | Use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. From learn.genetics.utah.edu |
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| Amazing HD Footage of Plants and Insects Magnified Thousands of Times | Youtube. 2 mins. | |
| A mite on the eye of a flea | From imgur.com | |
| Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe | Link | From Physics Girl Youtube channel. 6 mins |
| Just How Small is an Atom? | Link | Youtube. 5 mins. TED-Ed |
| THE VERY BIG | ||
| The most impressive image ever taken? | Known as the Hubble Deep Field, it images a very large part of our universe. Youtube. 6 mins. Uploaded by Deep Astronomy | |
Laniakea: Our home supercluster |
Youtube. 4 mins. From Nature | |
| Scale of the universe2 | htwins.net/scale2 | |
| Another run-through, going out then back in | Link | This one's on Facebook |
| Largest Sky Map Revealed: An Animated Flight Through the Universe | Youtube. 2 mins. From TheScienceChannel | |
| A wonderful run-through of all major events from Big Bang to now | Fantastic resource for putting our recent arrival in context | |
| The size of some BIG objects in the universe, relative to the Earth. | A series of images. Just scroll down slowly to blow your mind. From rense.com | |
| Similar to above but on a bigger scale | Link | From physics-astronomy.com |
| A video referencing the objects above plus much more | Link | Youtube. 4 mins. |
| Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of our moon | Link | Youtube. 1 min |
| "You are here". Series of maps progressively taking in more of the universe each time. | From gawker.com | |
Fancy riding a rocket through our Solar System? Then check out this interactive infographic. |
From the BBC website | |
| The solar system to scale | Link | From vimeo.com |
| Riding light. What would the solar system look like if you were riding a photon of light coming from the sun | Link | Beautiful idea. Video from vimeo |
| How far do you travel through space in 60 seconds? | Link | A lot can happen in one minute. From the BBC |
| How many stars/ galaxies/ universes are there? | Link | YouTube. 4 mins. |
| Cycle the Solar System York’s solar system model | Link | |
| And now for something completely different . . . | ||
| Monty Python's The Galaxy Song | Youtube. 3 mins | |
| The 'remixed' version | This a flash animation of the same song | |
| Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot | ||
| The original | Link | YouTube. 4 mins. |
| Updated | Link | Youtube. 4 mins. |
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| The VERY BIG and the VERY SMALL | ||
| Very similar to the previous link | Use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. From htwins.net | |
| Another varation | This one takes a little while to get used to. From nikon.com/ | |
| Interactive Powers of Ten | From micro.magnet.fsu.edu | |
A remake of the original Powers of Ten film |
Naratted by Morgan Freeman. Youtube. 9 mins | |
| DEEP TIME | ||
| A wonderful run-through of all the major events from the Big Bang to now | Fantastic resource for putting our recent arrival in context. But you need to know that you have to click and drag the red triangle. From johnkyrk.com | |
| Similar idea - this time as if you're looking out the front window of a spaceship | From schoolscience.co.uk/ | |
| The Fallen of World War II | Link | You need to see this to really appreicate the number of casualties. From vimeo.com 20 mins |