Im sure that’s on an episode of PorridgeSpace is proper massive.
If you have three ping pong balls, one being earth, one being the sun, and one being proxima centauri... which is the closest star to the sun...
You place the earth and the sun in your hands, next to each other.... By the scale of the distance, the third ping pong ball would need to be in the south of France.
I don't think "my hands to the South of France" is an accepted unit of alternative measurement. For distance units are usually double decker buses, blue whales or football pitches.Space is proper massive.
If you have three ping pong balls, one being earth, one being the sun, and one being proxima centauri... which is the closest star to the sun...
You place the earth and the sun in your hands, next to each other.... By the scale of the distance, the third ping pong ball would need to be in the south of France.
Looks like someone farted in a biscuit tin
1,000,021,000 blue whalesI don't think "my hands to the South of France" is an accepted unit of alternative measurement. For distance units are usually double decker buses, blue whales or football pitches.
A cluster of galaxies is galaxies that are glued together via gravity and typically contains 10^14 galaxies. That's 10 with 14 zeros. I think that's a trillion galaxies, if my zeros are right.Read that there's 400 billion galaxies on that image and approx 1-10 trillion planets, can anyone confirm this?
Could be, I don't know. It would have to be very much closer though. Think of the scale of a galaxy.I think the ones with the bahtinov type spikes might be local stars, but yes, everything else is a galaxy. Considering just how many are in that grain of rice piece of sky is insane
I don't think "my hands to the South of France" is an accepted unit of alternative measurement. For distance units are usually double decker buses, blue whales or football pitches.
Even more mind blowing. If you imagine an atoms nucleus as a golf ball. It's nearest electron would be 2.5km away.Space is proper massive.
If you have three ping pong balls, one being earth, one being the sun, and one being proxima centauri... which is the closest star to the sun...
You place the earth and the sun in your hands, next to each other.... By the scale of the distance, the third ping pong ball would need to be in the south of France.
Were driven out into the Western Desert in Egypt at night years back and instructed to get out the van, lie on our backs and look up.Anyone who’s interest has been piqued by this, who hasn’t already, I’d really recommend driving out to a dark sky area one night and looking up - even with a pair of binoculars you’ll be blown away by what you can see.
Thanks for that.
Mind boggling.
How did they get the photographs from the same angle?
They just point it at the same area of space. The distance is so great that the angle doesn’t change so far as we can see.How did they get the photographs from the same angle?
How did they get the photographs from the same angle?