The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a universe stranger than we imagined. A planet shaped like a lemon orbiting a dead pulsar. An atmosphere of pure carbon where diamonds rain through alien skies. Scientists cannot explain how it formed. But this impossible world is just the beginning of a journey through cosmic scale that will reshape how you see existence.
From the strangest exoplanet ever discovered to supermassive black holes containing sixty six billion solar masses. From red supergiant stars two thousand times wider than our sun to galaxies spanning sixteen million light years. From the cosmic web connecting clusters across billions of light years to the Hercules Corona Borealis Great Wall stretching ten percent of the observable universe. This documentary traces the complete hierarchy of size from individual worlds to the largest structures humanity has ever detected.
The numbers defy comprehension. HAT P sixty seven b is twice the diameter of Jupiter but less dense than balsa wood. Stephenson 2 eighteen would swallow our entire solar system if placed where our sun sits. TON 618 harbors more mass than some galaxies compressed into a region smaller than our solar system. IC 1101 contains one hundred trillion stars across six million light years. And the observable universe itself stretches ninety three billion light years holding two trillion galaxies and one septillion stars.
What does it mean that a single bizarre world orbiting a neutron star is almost infinitely small compared to structures that span billions of light years? What does scale teach us about our place in the cosmos? And how did the James Webb Space Telescope transform our understanding of how big things can actually get?
This is the story of scale beyond imagination. From diamond rain to the edge of everything.
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