{"id":77519,"date":"2018-04-04T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-cosmic-sense-of-scale"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:23:40","slug":"a-cosmic-sense-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-cosmic-sense-of-scale","title":{"rendered":"A cosmic sense of scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZx14YxtnxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This animation gives a sense of the awe-inspiring scale of some of the known objects in our universe. It is difficult for human minds to comprehend the sheer size of distant stars, many of which completely dwarf our own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun\">Sun<\/a>. Here we see some of the most famous objects displayed relative to one another. The animation begins with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\">Earth<\/a>, which has a radius of about 6.3 million metres, and ends at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VY_Canis_Majoris\">VY Canis Majoris<\/a>, one of the largest known stars in existence, with a radius about 1420 times that of our own Sun, or 990 <em>billion<\/em> metres! Keep an eye on the changing scale underneath the objects to really appreciate the variation in size.<\/p>\n<p>This animation will form part of the \u201cThe Living Universe\u201d exhibition, to be displayed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESO_Supernova_Planetarium_%26_Visitor_Centre\">ESO Superno<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESO_Supernova_Planetarium_%26_Visitor_Centre\">va<\/a>, opening in spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/australia\/videos\/0402-star-sizes\/\">http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/australia\/videos\/0402-star-sizes\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This animation gives a sense of the awe-inspiring scale of some of the known objects in our universe. It is difficult for human minds to comprehend the sheer size of distant stars, many of which completely dwarf our own Sun. Here we see some of the most famous objects displayed relative to one another. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}