Hundreds of Exoplanets Twirl Around Their Stars
All of the Kepler multi-planet systems (1705 planets in 685 systems as of 24 November 2015) on the same scale as the Solar System (the dashed lines). The size of the orbits are all to scale, but the size of the planets are not. For example, Jupiter is actually 11x larger than Earth, but that scale makes Earth-size planets almost invisible (or Jupiters annoyingly large). The orbits are all synchronized such that Kepler observed a planet transit every time it hits an angle of 0 degrees (the 3 o'clock position on a clock).
Planet colors are based on their approximate equilibrium temperatures, as shown in the legend.Source code to make your own can be found here: https://github.com/ethankruse/kepler_...
The Universe Is Much Bigger Than We Thought
Scientists have been working on mapping over 8000 galaxies to try to figure out where we actually are in the universe. By doing this, they have discovered that the universe is so much larger than we could even imagine.
Check out the video that delves into this.
This video shows the detailed universe. From Earth to the ever expanding space. It is beautiful.