are teir any images on the internet which show this?!?!
2007-11-13 04:37:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This is not completely accurate, but the opening to the movie Contact features an Earth zoom out that's interesting to watch.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kNAUR7NQCLA
For a more accurate idea, the classic "Powers of Ten" video will give you an idea. Here's two versions, one from the early 80s set to a Monty Python song, and one from a 1996 documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYg_oSEV-XM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zrlOGKI2E
2007-11-13 05:11:34 · answer #1 · answered by Eli 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are no images to show that because if the galaxy is so much larger than Earth that if it were shown small enough to fit in the picture then the Earth, would be to small to see. It would be like trying to have an image showing the relative size of an atom and a person.
2007-11-13 05:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not really easy to give a good visual representation. The sizes and distances are so massive and far...
If you represented the sun with a baseball at home plate, the earth would be way out in the outfield. Walk another mile for pluto....and that's just our local solar system.
Now Imagine a galaxy which is composed of a believed 300-600 BILLION stars, many more massive than our own.....BIG!
2007-11-13 04:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter and I did a project along these lines. We looked up the facts and made a scale model of the inner solar system. We choose a 3ft diameter disc for the sun. That made Earth 90 feet away and 1/3 of an inch in diameter. At that same scale, Pluto, at about 50AU, would have been almost 1 mile away. The next nearest star would have been about 6,000 miles away.
Since we're already getting way too large for imagination, let's shrink the sun down again by a factor of 100 down to the size of a grain of sand, say 1 mm. That would make the next nearest star 60 miles away. We, being about 1/2 way between the center (25,000 light-years away) and the edge of the galactic disc, would be 6,000 miles from the center, and 18,000 miles from the opposite edge. Of course at this scale, Earth would be microscopic and about 10 inches from the sun.
2007-11-14 00:07:23 · answer #4 · answered by Gary H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes, but they're all artists impressions.
The real physical difference between
the size of the Galaxy and the size of the Earth,
is that the Galaxy has a supermassive black
of several billion stars at the center, and
the Earth only has Halliburton at the center.
2007-11-13 04:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is images on the internet to show the Earth Size.
2007-11-13 04:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by fantasywriter2025 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do a yahoo image search for milky way galaxy.
2007-11-13 04:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by ✿❃❀❁✾ Stef ♐ ✿❃❀❁✾ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But it'll screw up your head. Just look for "earth galaxy scale."
2007-11-13 04:39:59 · answer #8 · answered by Elephant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like a tiny bit of sand in a humongous shore
2007-11-13 04:40:39 · answer #9 · answered by abu elias - !VIVA PALESTINE! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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all is lost.
sell my clothes.
2007-11-13 05:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by Faesson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋