The Universe
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2. The Earth in the Universe

Figure 10.1 Earth´s location in the Universe
There are billions of galaxies in the Universe. The most distant are so far that their light has taken more than 10 thousand million years to reach us. Indeed, the light started its journey almost right back at the beginning of time itself.


The image shows a diagram of Earth’s location in the Universe in a series of eight maps that show from left to right, starting with the Earth, moving to the Solar System, onto the Solar Interstellar Neighbourhood, onto the Milky Way, onto the Local Galactic Group, onto the Virgo Supercluster, onto our local superclusters, and finishing at the observable Universe.


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