| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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In this drawing the whole solar system, that is, the sun with all the smaller bodies
which move around it, has been reduced to the space of a circle a little over I
centimeter in diameter. Apart from the planets and Halley's Comet, which were
shown in #13 and #14, there are a number of very small bodies, which we
leave out because they are too small to be seen from such distances. These
pictures really give a wrong impression of what the solar system would look
like, for all the orbits are shown. What would be seen would be only the sun
as a small star (it would at this distance seem only about 100 times as bright
as Venus looks from the earth) and near it the planets, which themselves give
no light but are merely lit up by the sun on the sides turned toward it. Light
takes nearly 11 hours to travel across the solar system.
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