Let's scale the galaxy......it's really breathtaking!

Salam.

Nampak ini di FB, sangat-sangat bagus untuk diamati. Aku share di blog....hayati~

1. This is the Earth! This is where you live.

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

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

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

5. But let’s talk about planets. That little green smudge is North America on Jupiter.

6. And here’s the size of Earth (well, six Earths) compared with Saturn:

bayangkan jika bumi ada gegelung macam planet Saturn:

7. And just for good measure, here’s what Saturn’s rings would look like if they were around Earth:

Agak scary sebenarnya, sebab hari-hari tengok sesuatu yang sangat besar kat langit...

8. 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:

Gambar diedit untuk menunjukkan skala komet Rosetta berbanding Los Angeles. Gila hancur satu negara kalau besar macam ni!

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

sekarang, mari kita pergi jalan-jalan ke planet-planet lain dan cuba lihat bumi dari planet yang kita pergi.....

10. Here’s you from the moon:

11. Here’s you from Mars:

12. Here’s you from just behind Saturn’s rings:

13. And here’s you from just beyond Neptune, 4 billion miles away.

Kalau kita ni penduduk Neptune, kita memang tak tahu apa yang hidup dalam planet bumi kat hujungggg tu....

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

Even matahari tu langsung tak muat dalam gambar...fikir betapa keciknya bumi...kecik lagi diri kita ni haa..

15. And here’s that same Sun from the surface of Mars:

16. But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth:

17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:

Canis Majoris adalah bintang yang terpaling amat besar sekali berbanding bintang-bintang yang ada. Ia adalah 1,000juta kali lebih besar berbanding matahari kita yang dah cukup besar berbanding kita tu...

19. But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy. In fact, if you shrunk the Sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, the Milky Way would be the size of the United States:

dan bayangkan bintang terbesar Canis Majoris tu hanya bersaiz US sahaja dalam galaksi gergasi Milky Way (Galaksi Bima Sakti). Kita macam tak wujud kan...

20. That’s because the Milky Way Galaxy is huge. This is where you live inside there:

21. But this is all you ever see:

Daripada bumi, kita cuma nampak sebahagian kecillllll saja daripada kebesaran Galaksi Bima Sakti itu.

22. But even our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others. Here’s the Milky Way compared to IC 1011, 350 million light years away from Earth:

23. But let’s think bigger. In JUST this picture taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each with their own planets.

Selalu aku terfikir, ada tak planet Bumi yang lain, selain daripada bumi yang kita tinggal ni? Dan ada tak manusia lain kat sana?

25. And just keep this in mind — that’s a picture of a very small, small part of the universe. It’s just an insignificant fraction of the night sky.

26. And, you know, it’s pretty safe to assume that there are some black holes out there. Here’s the size of a black hole compared with Earth’s orbit, just to terrify you:

Gila besar Lubang Hitam tu!!! Aku pernah baca kalaulah galaksi kita ni tertarik ke dalam Lubang Hitam tu, memangconfirm gelap untuk selama-lamanya dan aku tak tau pe jadi kat kita...ish scary! Nanti aku buat lagi satu entry khas untuk Lubang Hitam ni..

....and just remember....

This is your home.

This is what happens when you zoom out from your home to your solar system.

And this is what happens when you zoom out farther…

And farther…

Keep going…

Just a little bit farther…

Almost there…

And here it is. Here’s everything in the observable universe, and here’s your place in it. Just a tiny little ant maybe just a germ (kuman) in a giant jar.

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Allahuakbar....
Siapalah kita dalam dunia ni....

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p/s : aku suka tentang astronomi, tapi sekadar suka-suka ambil tahu je, nak study betul-betul tak sanggup~ hahah