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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

We're Small

Take a look at this set of images depicting the relative sizes of the planets to learn how insignificant we really are. For some quick comparisons, our Earth has a diameter of about 7,900 miles. Our Sun has a diameter of 865,000 miles. Antares, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, has a diameter of about 599,200,000 miles. The numbers are hard to fathom but after seeing the pictures, its even harder to fathom something that big.

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