Our place in the Universe

[Soccerman06]

I came across this in my old Astrophysics class folder and thought you all would like to just see how small we and the Sun are compared to actual giants in the universe.

Inner Planets
Outter Planets
Sun
Arcturus
Antares

Enjoy

Edit: I do good in math but bad in engrish :roll:

 

[irishScott]

lol yeah, seen those before. To take it a step further, imagine the Milky Way in that final picture. On that scale, it'd probably be the size of Colorado.

 

[DrPizza]

Antares has a diameter about 700 times the diameter of the sun; about 9.8 x 10^8 kilometers.

Milky Way has a diameter of 100,000 light years. That's 9.46x10^17 kilometers, making it 9.65 x 10^8 times bigger.

If Antares is depicted as 3 inches wide in the picture, then the milky way would be 45,709 miles wide...
slightly bigger than Colorado

(Oh, the things I do at work when I'm bored and waiting for my wife.)

 

[firewolfsm]

You're missing a couple pictures in that series actually, the scale goes bigger than Antares.

 

[CatchPhrase]

The biggest thing in the universe is MY DICK.
DIDKDIKDIDKDICIDKCIDCKDICKDCIDKC

Keep the childish posts out of these forums. -DrPizza

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: firewolfsm
You're missing a couple pictures in that series actually, the scale goes bigger than Antares.

Ya, this is all that I had in my in-box. I'm far too lazy to either find them online, look the comparable sizes up and use AutoDesk to render them, or ask my old teacher. You all should know that by now