RENSE: The Size Of Our World

[Kekerusey]

Not sure about the site but this seems true enough and amazing!





SEE THE REST OF THE PICTURES HERE

I mean like ... wow!

Keke

[Nyx]

Yeah, I've seen these before somewhere, and I do think they're pretty accurate. Anyway, yes, we're just a speck of dust floating around in the dark. Now doesn't that just make you feel important?

And think about the energy collected in some of those bigger stars. It's impressive, and a little scary.

[Kekerusey]

Thanks for chearing

Tìprrte' oeyä

Keke

[Payä Tìrol]

You're missing the last frame from that, I think.

It's the one that shows several stars larger than Antares, such as VV Cephei A and VY Canis Majoris.

[Nì'awtua Eyktan]

Here's a video showing the scale of the planets and stars (W Cephei is one BIG star).

Planets and Stars in Scale (With Music)

[Hawnuyu atxen]

Here is another one, as a slideshow... i'm feeling unimportant...

[Tìtxur Lefpomtokx]

Well, these stars are bigs but their "life" is short.--->big boom

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

I didn't even know about those planets that were bigger then the sun!

[Dreamlight]

You are here:


http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.html

[Hawnuyu atxen]

No, i'm not That's only the Sun
I wonder how do we know how does our galaxy look like...

[Nyx]

Well, we can see the galaxy, just from the inside (or, okay, some outer rim, somewhere in the middle of nowhere). We can see where there are clusters of stars and dust and stuff, and models are made from that. And of course, they don't just use visible light for this, but emissions of various wavelengths.

[Hawnuyu atxen]

It must've been a very long job to come up with a proper form... every respect to those, who've done it!

[Taronyu]

Hey everyone, check this interactive size-map out:

http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

[Kekerusey]

You're missing the last frame from that, I think.

It's the one that shows several stars larger than Antares, such as VV Cephei A and VY Canis Majoris.

I ain't missin' anything ... maybe it is, but not me

Keke

[Nyx]

Hey everyone, check this interactive size-map out:

http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

Whoa, that thing is cool! Check out the swirly version for maximum dizziness... And I have to say the wrong version is just hilarious xD

[Tìtxur Lefpomtokx]

Hey everyone, check this interactive size-map out:

http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

Oh my God this is cool, unbeliveable sizes,"any length shorter makes no physical sense" why? it cant be 10^-36 m?

[Payä Tìrol]

Scientists believe there to be an absolute minimum resolution that distance can be measured as, which is a Planck length, ~1.6x10^-35m. Describing its significance is well beyond my area of expertise, but suffice it to say, you can think of the entire universe as a giant "display" measured in pixels that large. In this sense, a proton is 10²⁰ "planck pixels" wide.

Also, to give another sense of how large hypergiants like VV Cephei A and VY Canis Majoris are, here is an image of the size of VV Cephei A as a grid, superimposed over our solar system, up to and slightly beyond the orbit of Jupiter: (VY CMa and WOH G64 are slightly larger)

The sun is <1 pixel wide in this image.

[Hawnuyu atxen]

That is big... and it's only the KNOWN hugest star... there can be far bigger ones... ok, if it's bigger with the diameter of the Sun, it wouldn't be of any change, but still...

^
Strange to say that isn't it?

[Dreamlight]

Hey everyone, check this interactive size-map out:

http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

Wow!

[Nyx]

That is big... and it's only the KNOWN hugest star... there can be far bigger ones... ok, if it's bigger with the diameter of the Sun, it wouldn't be of any change, but still...

^
Strange to say that isn't it?

You're right, it would be hard to show the difference like that. But what if there's one that makes VV Cephei A look like a pixel?