" Space is self-aggrandizing , " asThe Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxyfamously says . " Reallybig . You just wo n’t conceive how vastly , hugely , mindbogglinglybigit is . I have in mind , you may think it ’s a long way down the road to the pill pusher ’s , but that ’s just earthnut tospace . "
The Hitchhiker ’s Guidewasn’t kidding . It ’s hard to get the rightful sentience of how boastful space is when people tell you " the Sun is 149.6 million kilometre away " or " our galaxy is 105,000 unclouded - age across " . Even our standard unit of measurement of measurement – narrate you how many racy whales it equate to – does n’t really help oneself out here . Does it make it any clearer if we severalize you the Sun is only 5,003,344,481 mediocre - sized blue whale by ? Thought not , but now you get laid .
How about if we told you that if you found1.3 million clones of Earthand thaw them down into a liquid liquid ecstasy ( please do n’t by the way ) , you could fit them all into an empty sphere the size of the Sun ? Still not help ? What if we told you how many elephant you ’d have to crush down into a pulp ?
What we ’re saying is , it ’s not that light to figure . To help you get your head around it , Neal Agarwal produce a really awe-inspiring interactive visual image , which takes you from the size of an spaceman right up to the size of it of the entire observable existence .
The first WTF moment hail when comparing a human to the size ofBennu .
And then Bennu to the size of lunar month .
We wo n’t spoil it for you – you really need to meet around with it for yourself to get a right sentiency of scale of measurement – but needless to say by the prison term you get to the size of it of the discernible macrocosm ( at 93.016 billion idle - year across ) , you ’re going to feel very small indeed .
You cancheck it out here .
