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title: "The Scale of the Cosmos: From Atoms to the Supermassive Galaxies"
description: "The universe is an amazingly enormous place. Really. As Douglas Adams famously wrote, \"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.\" Since it is so terribly large,..."
date: "2015-02-14"
modified: "2017-05-26"
authors:
  - name: "Jolene Creighton"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jolene-creighton"
url: "https://futurism.com/scale-cosmos-atoms-supermassive-galaxies"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
---

# The Scale of the Cosmos: From Atoms to the Supermassive Galaxies

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/universe.png>)

The universe is an amazingly enormous place. Really. As Douglas Adams famously wrote, "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Since it is so terribly large, and we only see such a small part of it on our own little planet, it's easy to forget all of the amazing structures that are our there. Fortunately, the [Number Sleuths](<http://www.numbersleuth.org/>) have come to the rescue.

Below is a view of the universe from the tiniest atom, to some of the largest known galaxies, and to the observable universe. So take a moment and get to know the cosmos again...

[![Numbers Sleuth ](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/magnify-universe-numbers-sluth.jpg>)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/magnify-universe-numbers-sluth.jpg>)
*Numbers Sleuth*

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