27 Facts that will blow your mind

this is Earth

this is where you live and this is where

you live in your neighborhood the solar

system

here's the distance between the Earth

and the moon doesn't look too far does

it think again at their farthest point

the earth and the moon are two hundred

and fifty two thousand eighty eight

miles away inside that distance you

could fit every planet in our entire

solar system but let's talk about

planets the Great Red Spot on Jupiter

that's about two times as big as Earth

and Saturn is about nine times wider

than Earth Saturn's rings are so large

that a few of the fragments within them

are as large as mountains but that's

nothing compared to our Sun just

remember this is Earth and this is Earth

from the moon this is Earth from Mars

here's Earth from just behind Saturn's

rings and here's Earth from just beyond

Neptune four billion miles away but a

billion is a big number so let's put

that in perspective one million seconds

equals about eleven and a half days

whereas 1 billion seconds equals over 31

years let's step back a bit here's the

size of Earth compared with the size of

our Sun terrifying right

and here's that exact same Sun from the

surface of Mars as Carl Sagan once mused

the total number of stars in the

universe is larger than all the grains

of sand on all the beaches of the planet

Earth and there are some stars out there

that are much much bigger than our

little wimpy Sun the biggest star we

know of V Y Canis Majoris is about 2,000

times the diameter of our Sun

but none of those compares to the size

of a galaxy in fact if you shrink the

size of our solar system down to the

size of a quarter and tranq the Milky

Way galaxy down using the same scale the

diameter of the Milky Way will be

roughly the size of the United States

that's because the Milky Way galaxy is

huge

it's diameters about 100,000 light-years

wide which when converted to miles is

about 621 quadrillion 371 trillion 192

billion 237 million three hundred thirty

three thousand eight hundred ninety

miles inside of all that is you you live

in this tiny tiny portion of the Milky

Way but even still our galaxy is a

little runt compared with some others

NGC 674 for a spiral galaxy similar to

our own is twice as wide as the Milky

Way stretching over two hundred thousand

light-years across it is a massive but

let's think bigger in this picture alone

taken by the Hubble telescope there are

thousands and thousands of galaxies each

containing millions or billions of stars

with their own planets

some of the objects seen here may have

formed as many as 11 billion years ago

just three billion years after the Big

Bang

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this period of time is considered one of

the busiest star-forming periods

and just keep this in mind that's a

picture of a very small small part of

the universe

so if you ever feeling upset about your

favorite show being canceled or the fact

that they play Christmas music way too

early just remember this is your home

earth