Summary: The universe is unimaginably huge, and inconceivable small. This amazing graphic helps us get our mind around a two-directional reality that is all together amazing. Make sure you have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed. The graphic may take a minute to load, but it's well worth it!
Why It's a Mind Blow: I absolutely love trying to comprehend the size of our universe. Try these figures on for size!
- An airplane traveling 700 miles per hour could travel from New York to Chicago in about an hour. It would take the same plane about 17 years to travel from the Earth to the Sun.
- Our fastest space vessel, Voyager One, is moving through space at 35,000 miles per hour. At that speed, it would take a little more than a minute to go from New York to Chicago. It would also take about fifty thousand years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.
Combine these numbers with the fact that there are more stars in the known universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth, and you may start to grasp the awesome scale of things. And for all it's size, our universe exists on the micro-level in equally impressive proportions. That's what makes this graphic one of my favorite mind blows to date. Enjoy, and thanks to Brian for sharing it!
Source: http://htwins.net/scale2/
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