Here's a bit of perspective for you.

[Penfold]

:blink:


PEN

[delanvital]

I remember reading the quite good remark that "the only thing stars have in common is the name, stars...". I am happy with our own G-klass star isn't much bigger

[Jabbs]

:blink:

PEN

I saw this while stumbling and I knew that Beteljuice was massive, apparently, if you were to place it on the same place as our sun, it would stretch out to the orbit of Mars. (Not sure if that is larger than Arcturus or not as it isn't pictured.

I love this stuff

[DogMeat]

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

That's perspective.

[T-Bag]

Yeah, Space is pretty big. It's only because these things are so far away that they look like dots in the sky. It makes you think, there must be some truely huge objects that are just far enough away that we just can't see them yet.
Imagine trying to explain to someone how big even Jupiter is before Kepler etc when people had little idea of scale in the solar system, I don't think they had numbers that big.

[BigFatCat]

Ever been down the Mall in Washington DC? There's a scale map of the solar system running the entire length of Jefferson Drive.

Apparently, people now leave tributes at Pluto, between the Castle and Arts Museum, to mourn its passing as a planet.

[Penfold]

Yeah, Space is pretty big....

:lmfao: ' Nuff said

PEN

[Luminance]

arcturus looks likes a nice place to life

[Blunt]

Reminded me of this





and this

[Anonymous]

Reminded me of this and this

You'll get over it.

I just hope I do :crazy:

[Aquilifer]

Nice picture set. I've seen it before.

Actually there is another set which has also Death Star (yes, The Death Star), stars bigger than Antares, and Milky Way. Unfortunately it seems much rarer. I have the pics on my computer, but could not find where I had taken them. But I found 2 Youtube vids which have used the same pics.

In the 1st vid the star around which the Solar system planets revolve around (c 0:35->) must be an M class dwarf, because it is too small to be Sun (besides it looks red rather than yellow/orange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4cFjmnQT8&

The biggest known star VV Cephei (c. 1900x Sun diameter) or VY Canis Majoris (estimates 1800-2100x) would reach the orbit of Saturn. Imagine a sphere that big. At the other end, neutron star would be roughly size of a large city (but so dense you couldn't lift a spoonful of it)

[Jabbs]

Reminded me of this





and this

That Universe scale is awesome - didnt have time to look at whole lot as work beckons me.

I'm still shaking after seeing the picture so I had to remove it!

[Luminance]

that vid certainly adds to the awareness :O, i feel so small now
prolly 1/1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000th of a pixel

[Carr0t]

Our Uni has a poster on one of it's walls in a fairly random building. IIRC it's labelled 'Proxima Centauri'. Basically, some school in America wanted to make a scale model of our solar system. They placed the Sun towards the centre of their school. I believe it was several feet across (possibly a poster covering one entire wall, i've never seen it). Planets were distributed in buildings throughout the town the school was in. For our nearest start, a teacher and several of the students travelled all the way to the UK, so that they could put up a poster of our nearest star at the correctly scaled distance

Quite cool, I thought.

[Anonymous]

For our nearest start, a teacher and several of the students travelled all the way to the UK, so that they could put up a poster of our nearest star at the correctly scaled distance

Quite cool, I thought.

Any excuse for a holiday overseas