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๐๐๐๐๐What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
FeelzGoodMan420When the moon is at its farthest orbit from earth, all of the planets in the solar system can fit in between earth and the moon.
Just in general how spread apart everything is in space is wild. As big as planets and stars are, thereโs still unfathomably more nothing in between them all. And thatโs in a solar system where itโs comparatively โdenseโ compared to interstellar space let alone intergalactic. It makes the vastness of the ocean look tiny.
My old school had a scale model of the solar system. It used the same scale for the planets size and distance. The sun was a 12" ball on one end of campus. Around campus were poles with little glass domes on top inside were tiny pins with little planet models on them.
Hereโs a version you can scroll through to-scale. Patience required.