Saturday, September 29, 2007

Grand Scale

How big is big? Take a peek at this video which demonstrates the scale of the planets and stars, starting with the planet Mercury and concluding with Red Supergiant star VV Cephei A, the biggest known thing in the universe.

2 comments:

W Brown said...

Wow, and all this time I thought I was big. Really impressive video it is a shame youtube.com is blocked by our protective internet filter.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Unknown said...

I'm really suprised. While I learned Earth Science, I was only familiar to few of the many stars in the universe. However, I never heard of this one. It's incredible how enormous this star is and just imagine how much matter it consumes for energy. Seven billion suns is way too big.