{"id":682,"date":"2011-11-02T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-11-02T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:57:27","slug":"map-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/map-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For once for a slightly different map: PopSci has a geo-centric map of the visible universe as it was acquired over time, from 1950 (top) to 2011 (bottom), precisely:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"Map of the Visible Universe, 1950 (PopSci)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/popsci_universe_19501.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"412\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Visible Universe, 1950 (PopSci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-684\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-684\" title=\"Map of the Visible Universe, 2011 (PopSci)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/popsci_universe_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/popsci_universe_2011.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/popsci_universe_2011-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Visible Universe, 2011 (PopSci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Different object categories are coloured differently in the map. For example, the inner green ring above consists of minor planets, the blue dots are stars. In the interactive map (see links below) you can hover over certain marked objects to to get more information, often including an image.<\/p>\n<p>In case you wondered, the Earth was &#8220;discovered: before 1950&#8221; ;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2011-11\/data-centric-universe\">PopSci article<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/174.122.95.202\/universe\/1950\/index.html\">PopSci Map of the 1950 Visible Universe<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/174.122.95.202\/universe\/2011\/index.html\">PopSci Map of the 2011 Visible Universe<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/174.122.95.202\/universe\/1950\/index.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For once for a slightly different map: PopSci has a geo-centric map of the visible universe as it was acquired over time, from 1950 (top) to 2011 (bottom), precisely: Different object categories are coloured differently in the map. For example, the inner green ring above consists of minor planets, the blue dots are stars. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/map-of-the-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Map of the Universe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,52,62,83,103,125],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note","tag-astronomy","tag-geo","tag-history","tag-outer-space","tag-solar-system","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}