Ever seen a space station?

[very-near]

Not a space station...but just as fascinating.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html

We are just tiny specs in the grand plan of things really. Even the sun looks massive given the distance between it and the shuttle, and it isn't that big in comparison to some stars.

Cool pic

 

[TheDoctor]

That is a cool as a very cold thing in liquid hydrogen.
*likes*

 

[Arch]

We are just tiny specs in the grand plan of things really. Even the sun looks massive given the distance between it and the shuttle, and it isn't that big in comparison to some stars.

Cool pic

Wow, yes. Really puts all that "If the sun was a beachball" stuff into proportion...

As does the York/Selby bikepath. The sun is 8 feet across, and the Earth a ball bearing.... And once you've ridden past the rash of inner planets within a couple of hundred yards, and it starts to be miles between them, you get an idea of the scale of interplanetary distance.

The only thing out of scale is the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn, next to the Naburn cafe, which is almost as big as the sun... I suppose in scale, it would blow away in a slight breeze or get swallowed by a blue tit.