{"id":13524,"date":"2016-11-17T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:24:30","slug":"the-universe-in-a-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13524","title":{"rendered":"The Universe in a Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: The original Kickstarter failed but they relaunched it and quickly exceeded their new goal:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1898673740\/the-universe-in-a-sphere-relaunch\" target=\"_d\">The Universe in a Sphere (Relaunch) by Clemens \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Clemens Steffin has a Kickstarter to help fund production and sales of glass spheres he designed that contain white dots representing galaxies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercluster\" target=\"_blank\">supercluster<\/a> to which our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milky_Way\" target=\"_blank\">Milky Way<\/a> belongs:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1898673740\/the-universe-in-a-sphere?utm_source=Mail&amp;utm_medium=Mail\">The Universe in a Sphere by Clemens \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laniakea_Supercluster\" target=\"_blank\">Laniakea<\/a>, that is the name of the supercluster of galaxies we are part of. This tremendous structure can now be yours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1898673740\/the-universe-in-a-sphere\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I made this 3,1&#8243; glass-sphere with 600.000 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">tiny dots, each representing an entire galaxy. I decided to make a Kickstarter campaign, where I try to collect a large amount of people who want to buy such a sphere to make the production affordable. Now I write you to ask, if you are interested in reselling these spheres? They will cost 30\u20ac each, if you buy ten of them and 40\u20ac for a single one. The campaign only runs until the 27<sup>th<\/sup> November and if there are enough buyers, the spheres will be produced. The campaign is already funded to 40% and I got a lot of positive feedback.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Update: The original Kickstarter failed but they relaunched it and quickly exceeded their new goal:\u00a0The Universe in a Sphere (Relaunch) by Clemens \u2014 Kickstarter.] Clemens Steffin has a Kickstarter to help fund production and sales of glass spheres he designed that contain white dots representing galaxies of the supercluster to which our Milky Way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Universe in a Sphere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3w8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6324,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6324","url_meta":{"origin":13524,"position":0},"title":"ISS-Above lights up when a huge space station flies over your location","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Via\u00a0Universe Today\u00a0comes a pointer to the Kickstarter for\u00a0ISS-Above by Liam Kennedy. 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