If the Moon were only 1 pixel in diameter on a map, what would be the scale of the Solar System? Artist and designer Josh Worth has created a great web page that actually answers this question – a tediously accurate map of the Solar System. He scaled the Moon to only one pixel (the radius of the Moon is 1,737 km / 1079.322 mi) and put the planets and other astronomical bodies like the Kuiper Belt objects accordingly.
Since the human brain cannot deal with really large numbers, it is a good way to understand how big is our Solar System actually (it is really big!).
Click on the image below to see the animation. And get ready to scroll a lot, because most of
While scrolling, you’ll go faster than light, but it’ll be like the solar system never ends. That’s how big space is. As the English author Douglas Adams pointed out:
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
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