November 7, 2006
Think you're important? Lets look at the big picture.
Scale down our Sun to the size of a basketball. Our Earth would be the size of an apple seed, 37 yards away.
The light from the next nearest star takes 4.3 years to get here.
Our Sun is a star in a galaxy we call the Milky way. It contains about 200 billion stars.
The next nearest large galaxy (Andromeda) is about 2.8 Million light-years away. It is made up of about a trillion stars.
There are about 100 billion other galaxies in the Universe.
Do you still feel important?
Scale down our Sun to the size of a basketball. Our Earth would be the size of an apple seed, 37 yards away.
The light from the next nearest star takes 4.3 years to get here.
Our Sun is a star in a galaxy we call the Milky way. It contains about 200 billion stars.
The next nearest large galaxy (Andromeda) is about 2.8 Million light-years away. It is made up of about a trillion stars.
There are about 100 billion other galaxies in the Universe.
Do you still feel important?