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Uncategorized Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 7:38 pm

Visualizing Distance in Our Solar System [Infographic]

Space is a big place, a very big place, an unfathomably big place. Even our little corner of it is pretty gigantic, but it’s at least slightly more fathomable. If you think you’d like to attempt to fathom it, this infographic by the BBC is likely to help, illustrating the distance between you and the farthest reaches of the solar system with conveniently fathomable benchmarks. Spoilers: It’s still pretty hard to wrap your head around.

Get your mouse wheel finger warmed up and check out the full graphic below.

(BBC via Visual.ly)

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  • Fredryan

    Total perspective vortex.

  • Donutz87

    Why in gods name, when I was a kid, did I use Gagillion and Zillion when there were such words as Sextillion to describe massive amount of something?!?!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1482006251 Lasse Henden

    Because quantamultizilliontrillionbillion would beat sextillion easily in the games we were playing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=570750719 Ron Bulinda

    Yeah, that’s about what I thought the distance to the insane asylum was. See ya there!

  • spock

    Race you! ;p