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1. This is Earth! This is where you live.
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2. And that’s where you are in your neighborhood, the solar system.
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3. Here is the proportional scale between the Earth and the Moon. This distance doesn’t seem very big, does it?
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4. Think again. All the planets in our solar system can easily fit between these two points.
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5. But let’s talk about the planets. This little green spot is North America on Jupiter.
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6. And here is the size of the Earth (actually, six Earths) compared to Saturn:
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7. And for good measure, here’s what Saturn’s rings would look like if they were around Earth:
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8. This is a comet. And this is what it would look like on Earth’s surface. A comparison of one of them to Los Angeles:
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9. But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember that:10
10. Here you are from the Moon:
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11. Here you are from Mars:
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12. Here you are from behind the rings of Saturn:
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13. Beyond Neptune, this is where you are. That is 6,437,376,000 km away.
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To paraphrase Carl Sagan, everyone and everything you’ve ever known exists in that little dot.
14. Let’s take a step back. Here’s the size of Earth compared to the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?
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The sun doesn’t even enter the picture.
15. And here is the sun seen from the surface of Mars:
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16. But that is nothing. Again, a little thought, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth:
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17. Which means there are many, many more that are much bigger than our sun. Just look at how tiny and almost insignificant our sun is:
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Our sun has probably had his pocket money stolen.
18. Here’s another look. The largest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times larger than our sun:
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