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    Our Solar System To Scale

    Interesting to see it at a scale everyone can understand.

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151225.html
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    That was cool.Thanks for posting. I still feel bad that Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

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    Pluto is still in this one. Take what alismith showed us and see how small we
    (our Sun) are.

    http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...mparisons.html

    And thanks ali for reintroducing me to APOD, I had forgotten about it over the last few years.
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    Nice video.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Full Otto View Post
    You may have place Nato on the wrong dwarf planet Otto. He should be on Pluto because, like the title of the old Jerry Lewis movie, he is "Way, Way Out"!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by alismith View Post
    Interesting to see it at a scale everyone can understand.

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151225.html


    Check out this one:





    What's crazy is when the larger star sizes are shown in AU... an AU is the distance between our sun and the earth. Imagine stars whose DIAMETER is 10, 20, 50 or more times than the distance between the sun and earth!!

    Absolutely mind blowing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Full Otto View Post
    5.56NATO lives here! Too funny!
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    This one is also awesome... travelling at the speed of light, starting at the sun and moving outward. How long just this trip takes... and our sun is only one puny little star in the unimaginable universe.

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    This thread needs more bacon!

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