Friday, March 29, 2019

Relative Sizes of Astronomical Objects

If Earth were the width of a hair, the sun would be 1 cm across and 1.2 meters away. Alpha Centauri would be 200 miles away. The Milky Way would be 10 times larger than the moon's orbit around the earth. The visible universe would be 3/4 of a light year across.

Here's the math.


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