Planets and Stars in order of Scale (1 minute video)

[ice60]

here's a cool video showing the Planets and Stars in order of Scale. they missed out Uranus, it's big and blue like Neptune i suppose, but i can't remember which is bigger!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1w8hKTJ2Co

did they recode youtube again!!!! one of my scripts has stopped working :(

[LaRoza]

Wow.

I never knew the stars were so diverse in size. (I knew the sun was small, but not that small)

I once saw a video on the relative distances. The solar system was the size of an indoor soccar field, and the nearest star was (on this scale) a drive of quite some distance.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Actually Neptune and Uranus are relatively the same size thus why Uranus is not listed.

[LaRoza]

Actually Neptune and Uranus are relatively the same size thus why Uranus is not listed.

Neptune is slightly bigger, but not enough to show in the video.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Right, the two are only a few thousand meters off and not enough for a comparison like this.

[ice60]

check out the sun vs VY Canis Majoris (pwned lol)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg

[sudomaster]

Wow that is a cool video... makes you dizzy thinking how insignificant we all are :lolflag:

[ice60]

there are some really good podcasts and youtube videos about astronomy i've seen recently. at youtube there's something called 'outer planets' and 'inner planets'. and there's a great podcast called 'Astronomy Cast'. they ask people to get the word out, so i might as well mention it for them.

they did a series of casts about the solar system starting here -
http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-49-mercury/

if you listen while at the computer you can lookup the things they talk about 8) the podcast about saturn is good if anyone wants to check it out (probably not, i know lol) -
http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-59-saturn/

[jcwmoore]

Wow that is a cool video... makes you dizzy thinking how insignificant we all are :lolflag:

+1

[DoctorMO]

I honestly thought Saturn and Jupiter were bigger than that.

[hhhhhx]

Whoa!

[sobakasu]

they did a series of casts about the solar system starting here -
http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-49-mercury/



Thanks a lot for the link, that sounds really interesting! I'm definitely going to give it a listen! (Plus I love that they seem to be doing transcripts of all of their episodes!)

[arkangel]

This video in pretty amazing as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw


a must watch video ;)

[ice60]

here's how Saturn looks through a telescope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__HdUGKmSM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-AOp8zm94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrUj_-cgJc8

in the podcast i listen to one of the presenters said when some people see Saturn for the first time through a telescope, thay say 'is this a prank? it's just a picture stuck at the end of the telescope!,' because it's so unreal looking!!

[cwgannon]

Wow that is a cool video... makes you dizzy thinking how insignificant we all are :lolflag:
Bah. We're the ones looking at the universe. Our gaze fills almost the whole damned thing.