Our Place In The Universe: ... we must first comprehend the concept of scale. ... while the ratio of an atom's size to a human's size is 1/10^10.

Astronomy instruments usually investigate huge cosmic objects like stars, planets and entire galaxies. Now, a team of scientists used such a tool to investigate the universe on a vastly smaller scale.

NASA's Cold Atom Lab (CAL), a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, ... "This is the basic theory explaining the large-scale structure of our universe, ...