These pictures will make you Re-Evaluate your Life (Science is Awesome)

What a morning wakeup!

This is the Earth! This is where you live.

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And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.

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Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?

Here's the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn't look too far, does it?

THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.

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This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here's what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

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But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:

But that's nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:

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Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?

Let's step back a bit. Here's the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?

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But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars…

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These pictures will make you Re-Evaluate your Life (Science is Awesome)

This is the Earth! This is where you live.

And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.

Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?

THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.

This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:

Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?

But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars…

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This is the Earth! This is where you live.

And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.

Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?

THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.

This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:

Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?

But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars…

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