Feeling insignificant?

[Ziggy Stardust]

In that case, I don't think this will help much

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
http://www.astro-markt.nl/StellarScale/StellarScale.swf

One word:

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Yays, I was looking for that scale picture, I love it. Video is impressive too

 

[Turner]

Reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex.

Looks like they missed a planet on that movie.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I have been watching quite a few Horizon episodes and the BBC series "Space" with Sam Neil lately.

Really distances and sizes in the universe are ... well .... out there. (at a loss for better wording )

 

[Sophie 378]

Compare and contrast!

http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf

 

[Swedishguy]

I can't say I'm surprised.

 

[Bast]

I'd love to see Antares's supernova explosion.

 

[BCLG100]

Awesome, but why is one blue?

 

[Masquerouge]

Very cool video. The size of the biggest stars is amazing.

 

[BCLG100]

it sorta reminds me of the set up for a massive game of conkers

 

[Godwynn]

Spoiler :

And that is to scale.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Not really insignificant, just a little bit small.

 

[El_Machinae]

I think that when I leave here to colonise my own star, I'm going to pick one like Antares. There's a lot of mass there to harvest!

 

[Godwynn]

I think that when I leave here to colonise my own star, I'm going to pick one like Antares. There's a lot of mass there to harvest!

Isn't Antares an actual star like the sun and not a planet? Wear some sunscreen.

 

[sysyphus]

Why didn't they take it further and show Perfection's ego after Antares?

 

[thetrooper]

Why didn't they take it further and show Perfection's ego after Antares?

Difficult to visualize I guess.

 

[El_Machinae]

Isn't Antares an actual star like the sun and not a planet? Wear some sunscreen.

Yeah, the star. It will be an excellent source of fusionable mass with which to build whatever I want to build.

 

[Rossiya]

That W Cephei is just showing off.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

yeah, but what a show

 

[Stylesjl]

Great show. It also demonstrates just how insignificant humans really are in the grand scheme of things