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Size comparison of planets and stars

December 17, 2006

One thing I always attempt to convey to people is the relative size and distance of objects in our galaxy and the rest of the universe — because I think it’s so fascinating how tiny we are and because the sheer scale is almost impossible for our minds to grasp. Well, here is a fantastic video comparison of the sizes of all of the planets in our solar system to our sun to nearby stars to far away supermassive stars — as it zooms out to scale to the larger and larger stars, forget about trying to still see the Earth, forget about seeing our sun, forget about even seeing a star ten times the size of our sun. The other stuff out there is that big.

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