Understanding the scales of planets

Want to gain some cosmic perspective? Check out this incredible Solar System size comparison and find out how big our rocky little planet really is! 🌎 This animation was made by ©Starlord Animations LLC

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Me & a good mate were drunkenly laying on the ground looking up at the stars one night & I asked him what percentage of our solar system our sun took up in terms of mass. He said “ohh maybe 40%?”. 99.8% was not the answer he expected. We’re but a tiny speck of dust in the grand scheme of things

Uranus is kinda big

And for some reason, out of all that infiniteness, some deity is concerned about your masturbation habits. Really boggles the mind how much space there is between each planet, the sun and the moon. If you were to start from the Earth's crust and stack this solar system's planets one atop another, you still would not reach the moon. There's so much space between the earth and the sun that freaking light takes 14 minutes to reach us.

👍👍👍 Our Earth is truly small 😄

We are so small in the grand context of the universe

The scale of these planets is mind-blowing! Earth looks so tiny next to Jupiter and Saturn. It really puts our place in the universe into perspective. 🌍🔭 #CosmicScale #Astronomy

If earth was the size of jupiter the gravity would be unbelievably unbearable

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