1. This is the Earth! This is where you live.
2. And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.
3. Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?
4. THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.
5. But let’s talk about planets. That little green smudge is North America on Jupiter.
6. And here’s the size of Earth (well, six Earths) compared with Saturn:
7. And just for good measure, here’s what Saturn’s rings would look like if they were around Earth:
8. This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:
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26 space pictures that will blow your mind. GIH
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9. But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:
10. Here’s you from the moon
11. Here’s you from Mars
12. Here’s you from just behind Saturn’s rings
13. And here’s you from just beyond Neptune, 4 billion miles away.
14. Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?
15. And here’s that same sun from the surface of Mars:
16. But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth
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17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:
18. Here’s another look. The biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun
19. But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy. In fact, if you shrank the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way galaxy down using the same scale, the Milky Way would be the size of the United States:
20. That’s because the Milky Way galaxy is huge. This is where you live inside there:
21. But this is all you ever see:
22. But even our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others. Here’s the Milky Way compared to IC 1011, 350 million light years away from Earth:
23. But let’s think bigger. In JUST this picture taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each with their own planets
24. Here’s one of the galaxies pictured, UDF 423. This galaxy is 10 BILLION light years away. When you look at this picture, you are looking billions of years into the past.
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Even you can help explore the universe with your computer
visit http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than three dozens new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.
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Pluto was discovered as a planet and rejected as one before one year had passed on its surface.
A day on venus is longer than a year on venus. (LOL women .. Even their planet is wrong)
Its rains diamonds on saturn and jupiter.
Just a few facts I like..The other half of Sydney crew* (Not Chestbrah's half)
Its not a gambling addiction if you win crew*
Addicted to gambling crew*
Piss right in the middle of the bowl to make as much noise as possible and assert my dominance crew*
Too alpha to maintain eye contact with myself in the mirror crew*
60% of the time .. It works everytime. Cologne crew*
Creed Aventus is my 11/10
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Where have I seen these pictures before?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary☆☆☆UK Crew☆☆☆
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I love space man. So many unknown things out there, it's phucking mind blowing. I was watching Interstellar and when they first went into space it felt like I was actually in the movie since I was high as fuk. TFW reality hit me and none of us will get to experience it and I actually started to full on cry srs.
Astronomer/astronaut would be the GOAT job.
There and back again twice, a deep red's tale.
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