1. So What All Is Out There, Anyway?
The untold story of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderverse

2. She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room for this . . .

3. She looks down and sees Earth

4. The Moon comes into view

5. Soon she can see the Sun . . .

6. . . . and the other inner planets

7. There’s the asteroid belt!

8. The outer planets . . .

9. . . . the Kuiper Belt . . .

10. . . .and the Oort Cloud comprise our solar system

11. The closest star, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf 4 light years (LY) away

12. Other stars with planetary systems

13. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is ~100,000 LY across

14. Clusters of galaxies: Our Local Group

15. Clusters of galaxies: The Virgo Cluster

16. Superclusters of galaxies

17. Filaments of Superclusters

18. Distance = Time Proxima Centauri is ~ 4 LY away.
Light leaving star takes 4 years to
arrive at Earth.
Result: We see Proxima Centauri as
it looked 4 years ago!

19. The Sun 8 Minutes Ago

20. The Andromeda Galaxy
2.2 million years ago

21. NGC 1399, 65 Million Years Ago

22. Just Suppose: What might we see? There is a planet in NGC 1399
That planet is exactly like Earth
We could see that planet from Earth
What might we see?

23. Abell 1825
13.2 billion years ago