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Original – A diagram of Earth’s location in the Universe in a series of eight maps that show from left to right, starting with the Earth, moving to the Solar System, onto the Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, onto the Milky Way, onto the Local Galactic Group, onto the Virgo Supercluster, onto our local superclusters, and finishing at the observable Universe.
Reason
Crisp, encyclopedic, interesting, surprised it hasn't been nominated before.
Articles in which this image appears
Earth's location in the universe, Local Group, Milky Way, Observable universe, Solar System, Supercluster
FP category for this image
Space
Creator
Ras67
  • Conditional support The word "superclusters" in "local superclusters" and perhaps "interstellar neighborhood" should be decapitalized since they aren't proper names and the word "sol" is redundant. Btw, Google Chrome dealt well with the resolution. Brandmeistertalk 10:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Wow. This is the most impressive diagram to come through in a while. Clegs (talk) 12:12, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Clegs. Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:05, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The individual pictures are great but I don't think it is useful in this format. File:Earth's Location in the Universe SMALLER (JPEG).jpg has a more useful 4x2 format and a perfectly adequate size for both screen and printing up to A3 format. Using the Interactive large-image-viewer (flash-based) on my Firefox browser gives the most awful lossy JPG quality, and the non-flash one doesn't seem to work at all. I can download the full size image but it is a bugger to work with: to view the sequence, one has to pan right, but to do that reasonably, you have to reduce the size to fit the screen, which makes the ridiculously high resolution kind of pointless. If someone really is going to print poster sized images then they'll print the individual ones. I think there are better ways of presenting this kind of image. Colin°Talk 21:05, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Update: on a different computer I'm not getting the awful JPG artefacts with the flash viewer. But the Virgo Supercluster image has banding and the other issues still apply. Colin°Talk 22:13, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:15, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]