“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”

-- Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Friday, October 07, 2011

The relative sizes of planets:

13 comments:

LFeingold said...

It's really crazy to think about how small the earth is compared to all of the other planets in the atmosphere!

NBriganti said...

This video really put things in perspective for me. I never would have thought that the planet sirius is so much bigger then the sun. I honeslty didnt know some of these planets existed!

AStreeter said...

I never realized that Earth was so small compared to other planets. I couldn't believe how big the planets are! Earth seems like a speck compared to them.

KBrustman said...

Wow, this video was a lot of fun to watch because whenever i would guess what was going to come next i was completely wrong which compelled me to keep watching. Half of the planets that appeared throughout it i hadn't ever heard of! Also its amazing to see the size of earth in comparison to all the other planets, I used to think Earth was huge and now looking at all the larger planets its absurd thinking of living on anything that big!

CHeaney said...

This is insane! Its really cool to think about all the other places in the universe besides Earth. Since we seem so tiny it's fun to think about where the universe ends...if it does, and how much bigger other places are!

SPlatt said...

When you think about the whole universe and how small we are it is amazing. It is almost scary because you think the sun is large... wait until you see this!

BBell said...

I never realized Earth is so tiny compared to other things in space... it's kind of like the whole Horton Hears A Who idea...

JBayne said...

This video really opening my eyes to the grand scheme of things out there. It really amazing myself, as well as my sister, who is a senior in highshool.

JM8 said...

WOW THAT IS A VERY BIG STAR. I DID NOT KNOW THEY EXISTED!!!!!!!!!

LDavis5 said...

Wow, and i thought that Earth was the biggest planet! Also some of the planets I have never even heard of.

MT5 said...

I've seen videos like this before, but every time I see the size of the huge stars I am blown away!

AO8 said...

That is really amazing. First you start off seeing the moon and I didn't think that the size was going to be that much larger. Then it took a huge jump to Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. The sun was much bigger than all of the planets and then you saw some insanely large stars before the largest. It's amazing to think about. If you think that earth is big, you're totally wrong. The size of VY Canis Majoris is billions of times larger than earth. And Canis Majoris is a just a dot in all of space. I wonder how easy it is to see it in the night sky. I wonder if it looks any bigger than the rest of space. It's incredible.

MB7 said...

Wow, I never realized how small the earth is compared to other planets in the atmosphere. It's crazy!