---
title: "This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is"
description: "A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe."
date: "2019-10-30"
modified: "2019-10-30"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazing-visualization-shows-big-space"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "space"
  - "the digest"
  - "universe"
---

# This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is

![A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/amazing-visualization-shows-big-space.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Neal Agarwal\</em\>*

## Zooming Out

A new website called "[The Size of Space](<https://neal.fun/size-of-space/>)" illustrates how incomprehensibly vast the cosmos are.

As you scroll to the side, the site takes you on a journey from the size of an astronaut all the way up to the [entire observable universe](<https://futurism.com/the-universe-is-far-bigger-than-we-thought-and-it-has-10x-more-galaxies>). As the scale ramps up, from spacecraft to moons to planets and onward, the smaller objects become tiny dots before vanishing altogether.

## Close Up

[Neal Agarwal](<https://neal.fun/>), the coder behind The Size of Space who's also built pages like "[Grandpa's Art Show](<https://neal.fun/grandpas-art-show/>)" and "[Share This Page](<https://neal.fun/share-this-page/>)," used some of the best visualizations for each of the objects — a rotating Earth based on satellite imagery, for example.

That means that most of the black holes are simply hand-drawn circles mixed in among the colorful images of distant galaxies and supernovas. Except, that is, for the giant black hole M87\*, which was [imaged earlier this year](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/big-m87-black-hole-compared-the-earth>).

**More on space visualizations:** *[NASA's New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-black-hole-visualization>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)