34 Images Of The Universe That Help Put Things In Perspective

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.

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1. This is home

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2. A look at the neighbourhood

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3. A picture to scale between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look all that far, does it?

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4. Every planet in the solar system could fit in the space between the Earth and the moon!

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5. This little smudge on Jupiter is what North America would look like.

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6. Six Earths could fit side-by-side in Saturn with room to spare.

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7. If Saturn’s rings were around Earth, they would look like this.

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8. Man just landed a probe on a comet. Here is the size of the comet compared with Los Angeles.

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9. Our sun is huge!

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10. A view of Earth from the moon

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11. A view of Earth from Mars

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12. We look like a little blue dot from Saturn

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13. We aren’t that impressive from Neptune

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14. The earth compared to the sun

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15. This is how the sun looks from Mars

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16. More Stars Than Grains Of Sand On All Beaches

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17. Our huge sun is quite small compared to other stars

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18. VY Canis Majoris is 4 billion times bigger than the sun

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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

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20. “You are here” in the Milky Way galaxy

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21. The stars you see at night are in this yellow circle

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22. Believe it or not, the Milky Way is a fairly small galaxy

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23. There are thousands of galaxies containing planets and billions of stars seen in this Hubble telescope photo

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24. This is UDF 423, a galaxy 10 billion light-years from Earth. There are billions of stars in this picture alone.

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25. That Hubble photo was from a small fraction of the sky

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26. This is the orbit of the Earth compared to a black hole

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27. This all helps to put your personal life in perspective

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28. We don’t feel quite so big anymore, do we?

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29. It’s a beautiful night in our neighbourhood

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30. A look from further out

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31. A cluster of other galaxies

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32. The vertigo super cluster

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33. Even further out

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34. Here is where we are in the observable universe

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Via: Wimp

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