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That scale of the Universe website always blows my mind.
On the scale of stars/planets video there were some fake stars.
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My mind blew reading this amazing post..What a genius you are Mr.Tide.
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*The closest star is not Proxima Centauri, it's our sun and with our current technology we could reach it in around 100 days.

But, nice topic. I think you should add: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
To your sources, it pretty much sums up everything you said plus more in a nice animation
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This is very interesting. Nice post man
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iyop45 wrote *The closest star is not Proxima Centauri, it's our sun and with our current technology we could reach it in around 100 days.

But, nice topic. I think you should add: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
To your sources, it pretty much sums up everything you said plus more in a nice animation


The fact that are sun is closest star is irrelevant and everyone knows that. You know what he meant by saying Proxima Centauri.
Also, that link you say he should add is already in the post.
This leads me to believe that all you did was skim through and comment with your poor critiquing.
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I've always thought that maybe we are a think of dust like in Horton hears a who.
But maybe that's just me?
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I've seen those videos before and they are so interesting. I love learning about space!

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Tide wrote
We are Minuscule.

I just wanted to make this topic to put into perspective how small we really are in comparison to the rest of the universe.
This topic was created with the help of Zuko.

Planets and Stars Comparison


Flight Through the Universe:
Universe Scale:
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There are over 300,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way alone. There are more than 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. Can you imagine how many stars are in the universe?

30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000


The closest star to us is Proxima Centauri. It's a little over 4 light years away from us. That's nothing though. The Milky Way is an average sized galaxy, it's diameter is 100,000 light years. The observable universe is about 14,000,000,000 light years across. There may be much more though, as the universe is expanding every day.

*One light year = 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers!

Interesting Facts:
If you were to look at a picture of a different galaxy every second, it would take 4,000+ years to get through them all.

There are more galaxies in the universe then grains of sand on Earth.

With current technology, it would take us 80,000+ years to reach the nearest star.

*Will be adding more.


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our sun which we are pea sized to, is pea sized to another sun in the solar system which is really frightening to me
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It's insane how small we really are compared to everything else out there. There's gotta be other forms of life somewhere out there, since there's so much more out there.
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great post man, it reall shows that we really don't matter.
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