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How Big Are Things?
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small | Real world |
big | solar system | between | galaxy | ||||||||||||||||||||
nano |
micro |
meter |
kilo |
Mega |
Giga |
Tera |
Peta |
Exa |
Megameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper |
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look at the entire room |
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galaxy | 21 | |
20 19 | ||
local stars | 18 | |
17 16 | ||
between | 15 | |
14 13 | ||
E's orbit | 12 | |
11 10 | ||
sun | 9 | |
8 7 | ||
texas | 6 | |
5 4 | ||
hood | 3 | |
2 1 | ||
you | 0 | |
-1 -2 | ||
salt grain | -3 | |
-4 -5 | ||
bacteria | -6 | |
-7 -8 | ||
atom | -9 |
Ceres ~1 Mm |
Earth ~10 Mm the big blue marble | a marble |
light-seconds (lt·s) | |||||
0 |
0.1 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
0.4 |
0.5 |
earth radii (R.E.) | ||||||||
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
10 |
12 |
14 |
16 |
img, src Earth's magnetosphere
Mercury
Venus
Earth moon
Mars
Jupiter
Io Europa Ganymede Callisto
Saturn Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus | src |
Uranus Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon |
Neptune Triton |
Sirius B (white dwarf) src
Earth
moon |
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