If the Antennae Galaxie is 60 million light years away from the earth...?

Question

let's say that the our sun is size of the ball and that ball is in somewhere around the earth, where is the earth if the earth is size of BB Bullet, like if the sun, the ball, is in the CA Irvine, what is the location for the EAth, BB bullet like EUrope, asia etc

Answer 1

I cannot answer your question in your sense, for I have no clue what size a BB bullet is or CA Irvine ... however, it seems you try to get an imagination of distances in the universe. Thsi is quite tricky, because you got to do that in several steps:

Step 1, go to a football field.

Step 2, now let a pea be the earth and place it at one of the corners of the football field. Then you'd find the sun in a two yards distance. And you would just manage to place the whole solar system inside the football field, but without its outer edge the Oort's cloud.

Step 3 Now take the fact the whole Solar system, including its edges spans about 1,5 lightyears in diameter, that means, at this sclae, the short side of the field would be one light year.

Step 4 Now imagine the pea, that you placed in a corner, is this whole light year, then you need to go to the diagonal opposite corner of the field to reach the other end of the galaxy we live in. (= about 100,000 light years)

Step 5
Again, shrink this scale, now go back to your pea and imagine, your pea would be the whole galaxy. Then you need to go away one small step of only about one foot to find our famous neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, but you need to go away about 30 times as far, so to speak roughly 50 to 60 feet from the pea (remember, it symbolises the whole Milky way) to reach the Antenna Galaxy ...

Step 6 and by the scale of the universe, this is still a distance pretty near by, this galaxy just belongs to one of the neighboring clusters ... within the same supercluster ...

Step 7 I do not lead you to an already known and even way bigger scale , just take this, there are still structures even bigger than what I tried to make clear to you right now.

Answer 2

Hi. I assume you mean relative size in some unit, say arc seconds. The Antennae Galaxy at this distance (assume 60 million light years) would have Earth sized or Sun size objects that are not indistinguishable from point sources. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Dude, it's time to start doing some of these yourself!! Holy cow. it's called a ratio.

A BB has a diameter that is 2,827,932,000 times smaller than the earth.
A light year is 6 trillion miles, times 60 million is
360,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. Divide that by the 2.8 mil tells you that the Antennae galaxy would be 127,301,495,972 miles away.

If the sun is 93 million miles away from us, that means the galaxy would be further than the sun is now.

Answer 4

OK , lets say that your question is not a question, and lets say that ,what does Irvine Ca. have to do with the Antennae Galaxy and the rest of what you just said.
stuff like this is really hurting my best question ratio