What scientific fact blows your mind the most?

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What scientific fact blows your mind the most? - Lemmy.World

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When 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, there’s still unfathomably more nothing in between them all. And that’s in a solar system where it’s comparatively “dense” compared to interstellar space let alone intergalactic. It makes the vastness of the ocean look tiny.
Here’s a version you can scroll through to-scale. Patience required.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system