Friday, March 8, 2013

How Big is Our Sun?

So we have been taught since kindergarten that our sun is the largest thing in our solar system, but how large is it compared to the rest of the Universe? To be completely honest, it looks like a little pea compared to other stars that we have observed in our solar system. Lets take a little look into these sizes:

The largest known star shown in this video, VY Canis Majoris, is only one of the billions and trillions of stars in our galaxy. This star, would be able to fit 7 billion suns inside it. Now think of the trillions of other galaxies out there that could have stars twice as big as that one! It really puts into perspective about how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe.

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