When we look at the world around us, we can really do so with a number of different things in mind. For many of us, it is just a matter of seeing as far in front of us as we can reach, and we are too busy to really consider what is outside of our grasp. As a matter of fact, we might even start to think more of ourselves than is necessary, but that changes when we get a true perspective of the universe.
From time to time, we find ourselves in a situation where we are staring at a beautiful sunset or perhaps we are perched on the edge of a canyon. In either case, it begins to make us feel a little bit smaller and it can even help us to manage our lives if we allow it to do so. Rather than taking the world around us for granted, you can check out the following 34 pictures. Think about them in your world will never be the same again.
1. This is home
2. A look at the neighbourhood
3. A picture to scale between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look all that far, does it?
4. Every planet in the solar system could fit in the space between the Earth and the moon!
5. This little smudge on Jupiter is what North America would look like.
6. Six Earths could fit side-by-side in Saturn with room to spare.
7. If Saturn’s rings were around Earth, they would look like this.
8. Man just landed a probe on a comet. Here is the size of the comet compared with Los Angeles.
9. Our sun is huge!
10. A view of Earth from the moon
11. A view of Earth from Mars
12. We look like a little blue dot from Saturn
13. We aren’t that impressive from Neptune
14. The earth compared to the sun
15. This is how the sun looks from Mars
16. More Stars Than Grains Of Sand On All Beaches
17. Our huge sun is quite small compared to other stars
18. VY Canis Majoris is 4 billion times bigger than the sun
19. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell and you shrank the Milky Way to scale, it would be the size of the United States
20. “You are here” in the Milky Way galaxy
21. The stars you see at night are in this yellow circle
22. Believe it or not, the Milky Way is a fairly small galaxy
23. There are thousands of galaxies containing planets and billions of stars seen in this Hubble telescope photo
24. This is UDF 423, a galaxy 10 billion light-years from Earth. There are billions of stars in this picture alone.
25. That Hubble photo was from a small fraction of the sky
26. This is the orbit of the Earth compared to a black hole
27. This all helps to put your personal life in perspective
28. We don’t feel quite so big anymore, do we?
29. It’s a beautiful night in our neighbourhood
30. A look from further out
31. A cluster of other galaxies
32. The vertigo super cluster
33. Even further out
34. Here is where we are in the observable universe
Via: Wimp
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