Let’s explore this cosmic perspective together. How big is the universe? It’s a question that stirs both wonder and humility.

But over the last two years, an international team of scientists has worked to turn the data behind the largest map of the universe into something that anyone can use. In the stunning interactive map, ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

And to do that, we need to zoom out beyond the solar system, beyond the Milky Way galaxy, and even beyond all the groups and clusters that comprise our neighborhood of the universe. We need to ...

But what happens if we zoom out again. Well, we reach the end of greatness . This extremely poetic term summarizes a size above which the universe doesn’t look lumpy any more and that is at ...

We know that there are voids and dense regions, such as galaxies and the space between them, but if we zoom out—just like we zoom out on a smartphone with two fingers—these inhomogeneities disappear.

This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.

If you could zoom way out and look at the universe’s big picture, says Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire in England, “it would look really smooth. ...

Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out A JCAP study proposes a test for the Cosmological Principle using weak gravitational lensing ...

But if you zoom out to the far reaches of our galaxy, the sun no longer looks like such a giant. In fact, it's pretty average in size. So what is the largest known star in the universe ?

This incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years.