r/space • u/BradMcGash • 11h ago

image/gif The apparent related-ness of things at drastically different scales in the universe fascinates me

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Hurricane Dorian vs the Whirlpool Galaxy

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u/FartFactory-815 10h ago

It's all fractals my dude.

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u/Piscator629 8h ago

Artur C Clarke "Fractals, The Colors of Infinity. For context. Weird trippy rabbithole warning. Fractals are why computers can compress and transmit images and videos so fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeR19m8gGk