10 million light years to subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

[steveny]

Something to ponder
Once the applet has completely downloaded, a set of the arrows will appear that allow the user to increase or decrease the view magnitude in Manual mode. Click on the Auto button to return to the Automatic mode. Makes you wonder.


http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

 

[Ojas]

Mind-blowing stuff. Even more amazing when you consider that when you are finally looking at quarks, you still need another 19 orders of magnitude to get to the scale of strings (string theory). That's the same difference in magnitude between "Our solar system" and "Nucleus of a leaf cell."

 

[Joel]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

I also took some time to navigate through that site. The photo gallery is amazing. Pictures of birthstones at the molecular level!