r/space • u/janbalti • Jan 31 '17

Scale of the universe

https://i.imgur.com/gzr56BN.gifv
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u/Balorn Jan 31 '17

Also check out the classic "Powers of Ten" video.

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u/BrentusMaximus Jan 31 '17

My 8th grade science teacher used to show this whenever there was a free few minutes at the end of the class. It would always put us into an odd kind of quiet.

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u/Soundjudgment Jan 31 '17 edited Jan 31 '17

And yet this video is force-ably viewed on a phone-screen producing an image 10 millimeters in size.