The Zoomable Universe

An epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universe

Inspired by the classic Powers of Ten—a film by Charles and Ray Eames, which was based on a book by Kees Boeke—the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on a breathtaking, cutting-edge journey through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest.

Their unforgettable tour begins at the edge of the observable universe, a scale of 10^27 meters—about 91 billion light-years from a human standing on the surface of the Earth. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time itself behaves in a way that confounds all the rules of physics we currently know. In between are galaxies, black holes, solar systems, stars and planets, oceans and continents, plants and animals, microorganisms, atoms, quantum fields, and much more. Stops include the surface of...