How Small We Are

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An amazing picture of comparison of the earth size with the known biggest stars & planets in our Milky way Galaxy. The thing that I like the most is that, you can get a feeling of size and scale in the universe, look at how tiny the earth looks and imagine how tiny we are!!!

If you’ve ever had trouble grasping the true sizes involved in astronomy and the size of earth compared to other planets and stars, as you will see here the scales involved are mind blowing.

The VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 3,000 light years from Earth. It is 3rd largest star found in our galaxy.

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VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hyper giant star located in the constellation Canis Major. It is 2nd largest known star in our galaxy and also one of the most luminous known. It is located about 4,900 light years away from Earth.

WOH G64 is a red super giant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. With 2000 times the radius of the Sun, it is the largest known star in our galaxy.

Here is the List of Largest Known Stars


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These are the findings within a small part in our Milky way galaxy. Our technology and research has reached only a fraction of % in our galaxy. There is yet to discover more.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is 26000 light years away from us. Even If you travel at the speed of light it will take thousands of years to reach the center of our galaxy. Like our Milky Way galaxy there are Billions of galaxies!!!

Its unimaginable to think the size of the universe holding billions of galaxies. We can only think on how wonderful and supernatural the God's creation is.

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Sam