With the help of NASA and Princeton’s logarithmic maps, artist Pablo Carlos Budassi has managed to cram just about everything we know about the universe into one breathtaking image.

Featuring the sun in the centre, we see our solar system surrounded by the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, the Perseus arm and neighbouring galaxies. Using an astonishing level of detail, the very edge of the image even features the layer of plasma generated by the Big Bang.

(Photo: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Wiki Commons)

As the Independent reminds us, the universe is thought to date back 13.8 billion years during which time it has been populated by some billions of galaxies, most of which unknown to us.

Using the logarithmic maps as a blueprint able to fit on a computer screen, Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to document the mind-boggling amount of information into one observable unit.

As the artist explains, he got the idea while drawing hexaflexagons for his son’s birthday:

 

“Then when I was drawing hexaflexagons for my sons birthday souvenirs, I started drawing central views of the cosmos and the solar system.

That day the idea of a logarithmic view came and in the next days I was able to [assemble] it with Photoshop using images from NASA and some textures created by my own.”

 

We’ll leave you to admire all 93 billion light years-wide of our universe – and reflect on the fact that it might not be the only one.