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26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence

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1. This is the Earth! This is where you live.

 

 

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image / Via visibleearth.nasa.gov

 

2. And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.

 

 

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Via foxnews.com

 

3. Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?

 

 

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4. THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.

 

 

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PerplexingPotato / Via reddit.com

 

5. But let’s talk about planets. That little green smudge is North America on Jupiter.

 

 

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NASA / John Brady / Via astronomycentral.co.uk

 

6. And here’s the size of Earth (well, six Earths) compared with Saturn:

 

 

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NASA / John Brady / Via astronomycentral.co.uk

 

7. And just for good measure, here’s what Saturn’s rings would look like if they were around Earth:

 

 

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Ron Miller / Via io9.com

 

8. This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

 

 

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Matt Wang / Via mentalfloss.com

 

9. But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:

 

 

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Via Twitter: @maiwandafghani

 

10. Here’s you from the moon:

 

 

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NASA

 

11. Here’s you from Mars:

 

 

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NASA

 

12. Here’s you from just behind Saturn’s rings:

 

 

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NASA

 

13. And here’s you from just beyond Neptune, 4 billion miles away.

 

 

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NASA

To paraphrase Carl Sagan, everyone and everything you have ever known exists on that little speck.

 

14. Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?

 

 

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John Brady / Via astronomycentral.co.uk

The sun doesn’t even fit in the image.

 

15. And here’s that same Sun from the surface of Mars:

 

 

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NASA

 

16. But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth:

 

 

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Via science.nationalgeographic.com

 

17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:

 

 

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Via en.wikipedia.org

Our sun probably gets its lunch money stolen.

 

18. Here’s another look. The biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun:

 

 

 

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Via

………

 

19. But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy. In fact, if you shrunk the Sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, the Milky Way would be the size of the United States:

 

 

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Via reddit.com

 

20. That’s because the Milky Way Galaxy is huge. This is where you live inside there:

 

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Via teecraze.com

 

21. But this is all you ever see:

 

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Via Twitter: @lucybrockle

(That’s not a picture of the Milky Way, but you get the idea.)

 

22. But even our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others. Here’s the Milky Way compared to IC 1011, 350 million light years away from Earth:

 

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Via Twitter: @smokeinpublic

Just THINK about all that could be inside there.

 

23. But let’s think bigger. In JUST this picture taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each with their own planets.

 

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Via hubblesite.org

 

24. Here’s one of the galaxies pictured, UDF 423. This galaxy is 10 BILLION light years away. When you look at this picture, you are looking billions of years into the past.

 

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Via wikisky.org

Some of the other galaxies are thought to have formed only a few hundred million years AFTER the Big Bang.

 

25. And just keep this in mind — that’s a picture of a very small, small part of the universe. It’s just an insignificant fraction of the night sky.

 

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Via thetoc.gr

 

26. And, you know, it’s pretty safe to assume that there are some black holes out there. Here’s the size of a black hole compared with Earth’s orbit, just to terrify you:

 

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D. Benningfield/K. Gebhardt/StarDate / Via mcdonaldobservatory.org

 

So if you’re ever feeling upset about your favorite show being canceled or the fact that they play Christmas music way too early — just remember…

 

 

This is your home.

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

This is what happens when you zoom out from your home to your solar system.

 

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And this is what happens when you zoom out farther…

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

And farther…

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Keep going…

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Just a little bit farther…

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Almost there…

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

And here it is. Here’s everything in the observable universe, and here’s your place in it. Just a tiny little ant in a giant jar.

 

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By Andrew Z. Colvin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (creativecommons.org) or GFDL (gnu.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

Oh man.

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"...the monarch of mountains: they crowned him long time ago οn a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, with a diadem of snow''

(Lord Byron about Mont Blanc)

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Ασύλληπτο!! Αλλά πάντως πούδρες δεν βλέπω πουθενά εκτός!

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Και επειδή ο περισσότερος κόσμος όντως έχει στο μυαλό του την εικόνα του ηλιακού συστήματος κάπως έτσι:

 

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με τους πλανήτες τον ένα πάνω στον άλλο για να φαίνονται όλοι σε μια εικόνα, καλό θα ήταν να ξαναθυμηθούμε τις πραγματικές αποστάσεις ανάμεσα στα σώματα που κυκλοφορούν στην γειτονιά μας:

 

If the moon were only 1 pixel

 

Μπορείτε να κάνετε και click στην ταχύτητα του φωτός κάτω δεξιά στον χάρτη.

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Make Parnassos Great Again!

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Oντως πολυ ωραιο...αλλα γιατι να μην γκρινιαζω για τα χιονια?


Snow is on my D.N.A.

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