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Home in Relation to Everything
Compilation: Roland Winkler, Leibnitz Institution of Astrophysics, Potsdam
2013-04-15
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- 6 small images at the top and bottom: The not-annotated version is used and re-texted with a different font, matching the central galaxy image. The text information came from the annotated version. Some small errors were corrected though.…
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The image shows a poster, meant for A0 printing or just enjoying on the screen.
The image is an artwork, created by me. It is compiled from multiple, free sources, listed at the 'original source' section. The image puts home (earth and our solar system) into perspective of the universe as far as we know it. As an astronomer, it is particular difficult to provide a sense, or a feeling of the scale of the universe and everything that surrounds it. This poster is meant to help the astronomically interested person to feel what it means to live in this universe.
The six artistic images on top and below as well as the milky way present a sense of the size of the known, nearby universe.
The Planets diagram sets the earth and other planets of the solar system into the perspective of roughly 500 extrasolar planets that have been found and confirmed so far. The diagram does not actually show the distribution of planets as it is in reality, it is strongly biased due to our limits in observing small planets and planets with a large distance to the host star.
The HR diagram puts the sun in relation of other, nearby suns. This diagram is also biased due to our limits of observing very…
