Perspective

Altron

Well-Known Member
Funny how the biggest star is named "Big Dog". I recognized all the names until it got past Betelgeuse.

What I like too are the examples that show distance... i.e. the ones that are like "If the sun is as big as a basketball, then earth is the size of a ball bearing that's 100 yards away, Jupiter is the size of a ping pong ball that's 300 yards away, etc." or something along those lines. Gives a cool perspective of how big the orbit is.

BTW, a red giant is the size of Jupiter's orbit around the sun.
 

POStech

New Member
Nice!

I liked this fact
It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 Quadrillion) earths to fill VY Canis Majoris
 
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