Albert Einstein said: "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not quite sure about the universe." little one. Even our planet, Earth, is only a fragment in this magnificent mosaic, the image of which allows us to see on an ever-increasing scale through satellites, telescopes and probes.
When night falls let's look at the sky sprinkled with stars, it's like letting your imagination run wild. That's when our spirituality comes to the fore, that's when everything here on Earth seems like that insignificant and small. And in fact, when we look at it more broadly, this is where the illusion of our (omni)power bursts like a soap bubble.
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Home Sweet Home. We will probably have to go to the moon to really find out that we lack nothing here on Earth.
Our "nearby" neighborhood.
The distance between the Earth and the Moon. Doesn't seem that far, does it?
Think again. During this distance, you can comfortably squeeze all the planets of our Solar System.
That green blob that looks like a piece of lettuce between its teeth is actually North America compared to Jupiter.
This is how the Earth, or the "sixpack" Earth, looks compared to Saturn.
This is what Saturn's rings would look like if Earth put them on.
This is a comet similar to the one we recently landed on. And below it is Los Angeles.
Either way, everything revolves around the sun.
This is how the Moons see us...
… like this from Mars…
... and this one from Saturn's ring.
Earth pictured from Neptune, 4 billion kilometers away.
The earth compared to the sun. Creepy, isn't it?
Sun from Mars.
As Carl Sagan once said: "There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of this world."
This means that even our sun is not some bav-bav, if we put it in a wider context. Just look at it. It all depends on the perspective.
But even that is nothing compared to the size of the galaxy. If the sun is reduced to the size of a white blood cell and the same cotton wool is used for the Milky Way, then the Milky Way is the size of the United States of America.
Yes, the Milky Way is that enormous. And that indefinable dot is us.
Unfortunately, we can only see what is in the red circle from the road.
But our galaxy is also a real dwarf compared to some others. This is the galaxy IC 1011, which is 350 million light-years away from Earth.
This was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. There are hundreds of galaxies in the universe, each containing millions of stars with their own planets.
The galaxy UDF 423 is about 10 billion light-years away. And when you look at this photo, you're actually looking a billion years into the past. Yes, the image from space still uses "regular mail".
What seems infinitely large to us is actually just a speck of the universe.
The most terrifying thing in the universe are black holes. This is how it looks compared to the size of the Earth's orbit. Are you afraid of something?
Our only home in space so far, planet Earth.
This is what our home in the solar system looks like.
If we step a little further, we see that the solar system is also just a spit in space.
The Milky Way, the galaxy we are a part of.
If we drive away from the Milky Way, the matter looks like this.
Now we are really far, with super flocks.
You're probably lost by now, but that's not all we know about the universe.
So, we've reached the end. The universe as we know it.
