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  • How Big Is The Solar System?
  • molgrips
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    Check out the map on this page http://www.ursa.fi/tahtitieteesta/aurinkokuntamalli.html although it’s in Finnish. The english link top right has info but no map.

    It’s a scale model of the solar system built across the city. The inner planets are all in the central park close to each other, the outer ones are miles away out in the suburbs 🙂

    jivehoneyjive
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY[/video]

    lemonysam
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    Or alternatively: http://www.york.ac.uk/solar/

    CountZero
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    In that case each of us can claim to be at the centre of our own universe.

    I read somewhere that no matter where you might happen to be in the Universe, you’ll still be effectively at the center of it.

    twang
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    miketually
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    I read somewhere that no matter where you might happen to be in the Universe, you’ll still be effectively at the center of it.

    You’re always at the centre of your own observable universe, as what you can see is the lights which has had enough time (13.798 billion years (±37 million years)) to reach you, which is a sphere centred on you.

    What really messes with peoples heads is that the furthest distance you can see is 45.7 billion light years, and the lights from there has taken less than 14 billions years to get here 🙂

    esselgruntfuttock
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    Space, the final frontier.
    Which is also not only queerer than we think, its also queerer than we CAN think.

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