Explaining The Universe on Instagram: "A fractal is a complex geometric pattern that repeats itself at different scales, meaning that if you zoom in on one part of the shape, you’ll see a smaller version of the whole. Unlike simple shapes such as circles or squares, fractals can have infinite detail and often look irregular or jagged, but the repetition of their patterns gives them a kind of hidden order. They appear both in mathematics, where they’re generated by repeating equations, and in nat