Universe

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This is the ultimate size comparison video that you can find on the internet in HD.
Starts with the tinyest dwarf planets of our solar system, then continues with large planets, dwarf stars, stars giant/supergiant/hypergiant stars, nebulae, globular clusters and galaxies.
There is the famous VY Canis Majoris rated as the biggest star known, but very few know that that the incredible IC 1101 is the largest known object in the entire universe. Only galaxy clusters are bigger than it.
Hope you enjoy this one.

FAQ:
-Sizes are not 100% accurate as there is no way to directly measure them.
-Star sizes may change in the future, and new stars may eventually appear into this biggest stars list
-Song: Celtic Panpipes – Ride on

Duration : 0:4:0

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(Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, but it’s there for size comparison. As for the Sun, it was never a planet but is here for the very same reason.)

I always wanted to see a one-by-one comparison of the sizes of the planets, so I put the numbers into my 3d program. These are all correct proportions (of size, not distance).

Tamen, the final planet, was a world we created when we were children. Obsessed with size, we said it was 1,000 times larger than Earth’s sun (this was actually only 100 times larger, because 1000 made the sun so small you couldn’t really see it). We later learned that such a planet would have to much gravity that not only would no living thing survive, but you may get a nice little black hole started right there in the planet!

Wow… and I just realized that had the sun have been sitting where it is in this video, it’d be sucked into the planet instantly.

*Music Appropriately taken from season 1&2 of the BBC’s Red Dwarf.

Duration : 0:1:29

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A mind blowing animation showing the relative size of planets and stars in our universe.

Background music is from the song “Such Great Heights” by “The Postal Service”.

Original animation was made by http://www.cycomedia.net, this version was found on http://www.transbuddha.com

Duration : 0:1:26

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music is from the movie “The Island”
composed by Steve Jablonsky

1. This Tongue Thing’s Amazing
2. The Island Awaits You

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Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei

planets stars universe astronomy solar system science asteroids space Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Sun

Duration : 0:3:36

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