Scary video: Here are the magnitude of the stars

How small are we in front of the stars? Here is an unimaginable comparison. In the video you will find the Earth clearly in size

While our lives flow peacefully Land, we do not dwell on the immensity of the universe. This video representation compares some stars Known to us: from small neutron stars with a radius of a few kilometers to giant planets with radii greater than 1500 radii sun (everything to scale). Considering that the solar radius is equivalent to 695,510 km, we arrive at numbers in excess of a billion km. Some of them are located in the center of the solar system, extending approx Saturn. It is also clear from the stars themselves They are nothing compared to galaxies or nebulae For example. good vision.

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The largest galaxy

An imposing member of the so-called group of galaxies Abel 2029 IC 1101 is located 1 billion light-years away Land towards constellation Virgin. It is a giant elliptical galaxy made up of more than 100,000 billion stars. The formation of stars and the galaxy has stoppedspiritssweeping nearby galaxies. IC 1101 Diameter is approx 6 million light years away Or about 60 times that of the Milky Way, which has a diameter of 100,000 light-years. If it were in the place of our galaxy, it would occupy our entire galaxy local group The merger of the Magellanic Cloud, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy. Moreover, IC 1101 is about 200,000 times more massive than the Milky Way. 200,000 x 6.82 x 10^11 (solar mass). One solar mass equals 1.989 x 10^30 kg. Below is a comparison of some well-known galaxies, including the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

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