35 Pictures That Will Make You Stop And Reevaluate Literally Every Single Decision You've Made In Life
If you've been on the internet the last few days, you've probably seen this image. It's a brand new picture of a tiny, tiny part of the observable universe, equal to a "grain of sand held at arm's length." Each one of those tiny little things is its own GALAXY.
1.But let's back up for a second. This is the Earth! This is where we 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.While I have you here, this is how many Earths can fit across the diameter of Jupiter:
8.And just for good measure, remember lovable little Pluto? We know what it looks like now!
9.We even have images of Pluto's surface:
10. But that's nothing compared to our sun. Just remember, you live on one of those BARELY visible dots to the right of the sun:
I took a photo of every planet in our solar system and adjusted their size to show how huge our Sun is. Zoom in to see how tiny Earth is in comparison. [OC] from space
11. And you see that little black dot next to the sun? That's Mercury:
12.But let's talk about Earth. Here's Earth from the moon:
13.Here's Earth from Mars:
14.Here's Mars from Earth:
15.Here's Earth from just behind Saturn's rings:
16.And here's Earth from just beyond Neptune, 4 billion miles away.
17.Let's step back a bit. Here's the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?
18.Here's that same sun from the surface of Mars:
19. And here's the size of a black hole compared to our solar system:
20.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:
21. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than our little puny sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is compared to VY Canis Majoris, one of the biggest stars we know of:
Our sun probably gets its lunch money stolen.
22.Here's another look. The biggest star we have observed, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun:
Size of our sun compared to Canis Majoris.