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By expertly blending logarithmic maps from Princeton and photos from NASA, musician Pablo Carlos Budassi has created an image that portrays our entire universe in one stunning circular photograph, according to the The Independent.
As befitting a “selfie,” Budassi notably puts our sun and solar system at the center of the image, which is encircled by the Milky Way galaxy, the Perseus arm of the Milky Way, a ring of additional galaxies near to us, the cosmic web, as well as cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang. Finally, there’s an outer ring of plasma pictured that was also generated by the Big Bang.
Budassi got the idea after creating folded-paper toy hexaflexagons for his son’s birthday. He’s released the image into public domain.
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