Once in a while I find a website that offers illustrations to help us appreciate the relative sizes of the Earth, solar system, Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. This one at Buzzfeed humbled me.
How Small is Planet Earth? Graphics that will Astound You.
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:November 28, 2019
- Post category:Astronomy / Science
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
OMG…THAT was AWEsome! Thanks for sharing that link. I don’t mean to quibble but I think measuring a black hole’s diameter as ” 4 light days” is…well… an oxymoron. ;-D
Good catch on the black hole. Maybe 4 light-days for the squished astronaut who is trying to fly through it in a magical spaceship???