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This video on the Great Attractor, which is pulling our galaxy towards it, gives a nice overview of superstructures: https://youtu.be/0w4OTD4L0GQ

See this excellent video on the scale of the cosmos: https://youtu.be/4iC9Qi3y9q8

And this one on how the universe would meet its fate at the hands of Dark Energy: https://youtu.be/fdFf5PRPE9g

This one on the emptiness of the universe is quite fascinating as well: https://youtu.be/BCjWmfWq0pU



Here's another fun one - a time lapse of the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

Basically suggesting that if our universe was a human life, we'd still be in the hospital right after birth. So much time left to go.


I recall feeling a lot of existential dread when reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future ... and this video just dug all that up again :)


Thanks for these links. TIL about this YT channel, and I was impressed with the quality.


Thanks so much for these links.

Just watched the first one and it was great.

Looking forward to the rest.


I like these two from the authors of the Laniakea super cluster paper in 2014

Nature: https://youtu.be/rENyyRwxpHo

Contributing Author: https://youtu.be/Ayj4p3WFxGk


Is there a book which describes and explains all such things in detail for common public?


Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time comes to mind: https://wiki2.org/en/A_Brief_History_of_Time




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