There is a lot of space in outer space!!!
- The Sun is about a million miles wide, so we are going to imagine it as a pool ball that is about 2 inches wide.
- The Earth is 8/1000th of the diameter of the Sun. It would lie about 14 feet from the Sun. So basically, the Earth is a speck of dirt lying 14 feet from the Sun.
- Each of the large outer planets Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus would be about 100 feet from each other (starting about 100 feet from the Sun), and each planet would be about the size of a small piece of Nerds Candy.
- Pluto would be about two football fields (600 feet) from the Sun.
- The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 900 miles from the Sun, and it would be the size of an individual Sixlet Candy (a little bigger than a Nerd).
- Using our pool ball analogy, the Milky Way would be about 22 million miles across, and you would have to travel about 22 million miles to get to the next galaxy (Sagittarious Dwarf). Each galaxy would be about 22 million miles from each other (we can ignore the fact that galaxies form in clusters – they are not actually evenly placed throughout the Universe).
- Using our Sun as a pool ball analogy, the Universe would be like a zillion-gazzilion miles across.
My guess is beer!!!
Image of Earth Taken From Voyager 1 Space Probe - June 6th 1990 - Inspired Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" Speech
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."