Compare the size of the earth with other planets
Now compare it with Uranus & Neptune This isthe Earth
Now Earth against SunAgainst Sun, Earth is like a dot Think !! Where do you find yourself now?? This is the Earth
Suppose if we assume Sun as a 100 inch - for Demo Actual Scale Scale Diameter Diameter DiameterBody kilometers inches mmSun 1391900 100Mercury 4866 8.88Venus 12106 22.092Earth 12742 23.252Mars 6760 12.336Jupiter 139516 254.595Saturn 116438 212.481Uranus 46940 85.658Neptune 45432 82.906Pluto 3400 6.204 The Earth would be 23.253 mm
As we have compared the Earth with Sun Now !!Start comparing the Sun with the Universe
The closest star to the Sun is only 7000 times further than the edge of our solar system.This map shows all of the stellar systems that lie within 12.5 light years from us.
This map is a plot of the 1500 most luminous stars within 250 light years.All of these stars are much more luminous than the Sun and most of themcan be seen with the naked eye. About one third of the stars visible with thenaked eye lie within 250 light years, even though this is only a tiny part of our galaxy.
The Sun is located in the Orion Arm - a fairly minor arm compared with the Sagittarius Arm, which is located closer to the galactic centre.The map shows several stars visible with the naked eye which are located deep within theOrion arm. The most notable group of stars here are main stars in the constellation of Orion-from which the spiral arm gets its name. All of these stars are bright giant and supergiant-stars, thousands of times more luminous than the Sun. The most luminous star on the map-is Rho Cassiopeia - to us 4000 light years away, it is a dim naked eye star, but in reality-it is a huge supergiant star 100 000 times more luminous than our Sun.
A spiral galaxy of at least two hundred billion stars. Our Sun is buried deep within the Orion Arm about 26 000 light years from the centre. Towards the centre of the Galaxy the stars are packed together much closer than they are where we live. Notice also the presence of small globular clusters of stars which lie well outside the plane of the Galaxy,and notice too the presence of a nearby dwarf galaxy - the Sagittarius dwarf –which is slowly being swallowed up by our own galaxy.
Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe,the Galaxy has special significance to humanity asit is the home of the solar system.As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way,if the galaxy were reduced to 130 km (80 mi) in diameter,the solar system would be a mere 2 mm (0.08 in) in width.
Number of large galaxies within 500 000 light years = 1 Number of dwarf galaxies within 500 000 light years = 9 Number of stars within 500 000 light years = 225 billion .The Milky Way is surrounded by several dwarf galaxies, ypically containing afew tens of millions of stars, which is insignificant compared with the number ofstars in the Milky Way itself. This map shows the closest dwarf galaxies, they are all gravitationally bound to the Milky Way requiring billions of years to orbit it.
Can you find the Milky Way in this?? Our Milky Way galaxy is part of Local Group & it is in centreNumber of galaxy groups within 100 million light years = 200Number of large galaxies within 100 million light years = 2500Number of dwarf galaxies within 100 million light years = 25 000Our galaxy is just one of thousands that lie within 100 million light years. The above mapshows how galaxies tend to cluster into groups, the largest nearby cluster is the Virgocluster a concentration of several hundred galaxies which dominates the galaxy groupsaround it. Collectively, all of these groups of galaxies are known as the Virgo SuperclusterThe second richest cluster in this volume of space is the Fornax Cluster, but it is notnearly as rich as the Virgo cluster. Only bright galaxies are depicted on the map, ourgalaxy is the dot in the very centre.
Galaxies and clusters ofgalaxies are not uniformlydistributed in the Universe,instead theycollect into vast clustersand sheets and walls ofgalaxies interspersed withlarge voids inwhich very few galaxiesseem to exist. The mapabove shows many ofthese superclustersincluding the Virgosupercluster - the minorsupercluster of which ourgalaxy is just a minor member. The entire mapis approximately 7 percentof the diameter of the entirevisible Universe.
This map attempts to showthe entire visible Universe.The galaxies in the universe tend to collect into vastsheets and superclusters ofgalaxies surrounding large voids giving the universe acellular appearance.Because light in theuniverse only travels at a fixed speed, wesee objects at the edge ofthe universe when it wasvery young up to 14 billionyears ago.
Now Stop Comparing & start thinking about the Knowledge & Power of the Creator by seeing this CreationDon’t you ever ponder over the signs of the Creator ??? All Praise is to the Lord of the Universe The Almighty, The all-Knowing, The Omnipotent Can you imagine the Knowledge & Power Of the creator of this universe???
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