The whole point of a logarithmic map is that it allows you to represent the infinitely large on a finite space. The further you move away from the center of the map, the greater the distance between 2 pixels becomes in reality. The concept is therefore ideal for representing the universe, or at least what we know of it.
And that's exactly the idea that the South American musician and artist had. Pablo Carlos Budassi by bringing together on a single map the entire universe as we know it.
To do this, he used satellite images and NASA photos and pieced them together to reproduce many of the salient features of our universe as observed from our solar system.
The result is rather impressive as I let you judge:
Logarithmic scale representation of the observable universe with, at the center, the Solar System, the inner and outer planets, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, the Perseus arm, the Milky Way, Andromeda and nearby galaxies, the network of large-scale structures, the cosmic microwave background and, at the periphery, the invisible plasma of the Big Bang.
If you wish, there is an even larger reproduction of this map that you can find at this address.
Article updated on January 24, 2021 by Byothe
