I don’t know about you but I always thought the Earth was a pretty big place, after all still takes over 20hrs to fly to Sydney from London. But this series of images really brings home how small our little planet is.
Hmm, not so big when you compare the earth to Jupiter……
And compared to our very own big ball of fire the Earth is positively tiny.
Hang on a second! So at this scale our sun, which huge compared to the earth, is a dot compared to Antares - 700 times smaller. Kind of blows your mind…
And there’s the Milky Way 100,000 light years in diameter containing an estimated 200 BILLION stars like our sun and Antares. To put it into some sort of scale if the Milky Way was only 80 miles in diameter our Solar System would be a mere 2 mm across. Maybe 20 hours to Australia isn’t too bad after all…..
