The universe is big. Really, really big. Unfathomably big. So big that our brains cannot understand the numbers involved. Back in 2006, I remember being really excited about Spore and Mass Effect.

The great cosmic abyss contains more that humanity can ever hope to see, including a slew of record-breaking objects. For human-made creations, Voyager 1 is the most distant at 143 AU, or 0.23% of a ...