geekathons will have seen this before, but it’s so good it deserves a slot in the archives:

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and it doesn’t stop there…

“The Size of our World” is the GIF above. Now, for the size of our Galaxy:

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These images, now nearly 10 years old … you can download the original (TIFF) archive image from the Hubble website.