As a follow up to my previous post of The Most Important Photo Ever Taken, here is a very interesting video illustrating the relative size of planets in our solar system as well as stars throughout the galaxy.
Keep in mind that the smallest body they show is Mercury and at an average height of 5.5′ it would take over 2.9 million humans standing head to toe just to stretch across that tiny planet.
The largest star illustrated is 753,320 times larger than Mercury. It would take 2.185 TRILLION humans standing head to toe to stretch across the diameter of that star, or 364 times the entire population of Earth.
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I think Betelgeuse is larger than Antares. This is a great video, thanks.
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Porter,
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to have been able to help settle the matter. :-)
John
hello , i heard that .. there’s like 100,000,00 soler system like ours .. and and all the soler systems are called ( a name i don’t knw it = X) and there’s like 111,000,00 like ( X ) .. and all the X’s the called ( ex Y ) and all of this are like 6% from the scintes discoveries !! ( i need to knw the reall numbers :D and the reall names and if this is true !! THANX
Sort your grammar out ahmed ragheb! Did you even pass your english? CHEESE!
how could I have missed this video before ? Great that the comment above brought it back, even the comment is not really apropriate
Rhoody
amazing universe
There is only 1 solar system because the sun is also sol and solar system is ours with 8 planets now that pluto has become a dwarf planet. But there are other systems in our Galaxy.
Did you know VV Cephei may be the largest but is not the brightest it is only 315,000 luminosity in solar units, whereas the most luminous star is 38,000,000 luminosity in solar units its called the gator star. The Sun is only 1.00 luminosity in solar units the least luminous star in the Universe.
Hi, I would like to use your film for a talk I am giving at our church next year about my hobby. Most people do not comprehend the massive distances or sizes of our Solar system or deep space. Please how can I purchase this film?
Thank you.
Andy.