Only science fiction can go as far as 'a hundred years later' at the scale of the universe.

只有科幻小说可以描写‘百年之后’的浩瀚宇宙。

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These results were used as a stepping-stone to measure the distances to 10)supernovae, which in turn told us about the scale of the universe.

这些数据被视作测量新星距离的进阶石，进而助我们探究宇宙的规模。

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They have been developed using some ingenious techniques but all have helped us build a pretty good understanding of the scale of the Universe in which we live.

这些方法也用些独特的技术得到改进并且这些都帮我们建立起了很好的认识，对我们所生活的宇宙规模有了很好的认识。

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Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

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But its main purpose is serious: to reveal the large-scale structure of the universe and thus uncover what happened in the first billion-trillion-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to cause things to turn out the way they did.

ECONOMIST: The Sloan star survey

So do measurements of how the largest-scale structures in the universe formed over time and of how clusters of galaxies are held together.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology