Tuesday, September 11, 2007

we are big, and small.

Here I found a very interesting pictures of comparison between earth and other planets/stars.
Although it is common knowlodge, i'm still astonished to find out how small earth is compared to the whole universe.
Here's the pictures(don't drop your jaws, you have been warned!)


The smaller planets compared to the Earth


Smaller planets compared to Jupiter


Planets compared to the Sun


Sun compared to Arcturus, Jupiter is 1 pixel in size and the Earth is invisible as this scale


Arcturus compared to Antares, at this scale Jupiter is invisible and the Sun is 1 pixel in size.

And Antares is just the 16nd brightest star in the sky !!! (according to wikipedia).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow, I guess if you were to compare a human to Jupiter, the human would be microscopic.