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So I’m guessing you’ve seen this picture comparing Antares to other giant stars, as well as our own sun:

And you’ve probably seen this picture comparing the sun to the various planets in our solar system (and pluto):

Well, today I decided to figure out how big Earth is in comparison to Antares, which meant I had to find out how big Earth is in comparison to the Sun and the Sun to Antares, because I couldn’t find the information.

As it turns out, ~1,000,000 Earths could fit inside our solar system’s Sun [1]. Wow. Then I found out that about 350,000,000 suns could fit inside the large Antares super giant [2]. That means (350,000,000 X 1,000,000) is how many Earths would fit inside Antares — 350,000,000,000,000 or three hundred and fifty trillion Earths.

That just blows me away. We are very tiny indeed.

Sources

1. Earth and Sun size (nasa.gov)
2. LEO DELIGHTS (souledout.org)

Scrabble Word of the Day

Don’t believe me? Click the image.

MC Escher in Water

The lost relics of MC Escher, recovered at last.

The old puddle-under-the-noose trick, aye?

No, I’m in no way suicidal but I think this is an awesome illustration of the answer to that infamous riddle.