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The venerable Mr. Adams was absolutely right – space is exceedingly, well, spacious. Indeed, no matter how hard we try to fathom how mind-bogglingly big it really is, the only real way to get a sense of the scale involved is to shrink everything down to user-friendly dimensions.
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Garlick, M. (2021). Balancing Science, Size, and Subjectivity. In: Ramer, J., Miller, R. (eds) The Beauty of Space Art. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49359-2_14
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