The Following 27 Facts Will Have You Doubting Your Existence

Planet Earth! The distance between the Earth and the moon, which is 250,288 miles, is shown here in relation to where you are and where you are in your neighborhood in the solar system. It may not seem like a great distance, but consider that you could fit all of the planets in our solar system within that space, but let's talk about planets first. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is almost twice as large as Earth, while Saturn's rings are around nine times broader than Earth. Some of the particles within Saturn's enormous rings are the size of mountains. But compared to our Sun, nothing Just keep in mind that this is Earth, and that this is Earth from the Moon, this is Earth from Mars, this is Earth from just behind Saturn's rings, and this is Earth from just beyond Neptune, all of which are four billion miles away. However, a billion is a large number, so let's put that in perspective. One million seconds equals about eleven and a half days, whereas 1 billion seconds equals over 31 years. Then, take a step back.

There is sand on every beach on the planet Earth, and there are stars outside that are considerably larger than our little Sun. None of them come close to matching the size of the largest star known to science, V Y Canis Majoris, which is nearly 2,000 times the diameter of our Sun.

The Milky Way galaxy is enormous; in fact, if you reduced the size of our solar system to that of a quarter and then reduced the Milky Way galaxy using the same scale, its diameter would be roughly equivalent to the size of the United States. This is because the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light-years wide, which, when converted to miles, is equal to about 621 quadrillion 371 trillion miles.

NGC 674 is a spiral galaxy that is similar to our own and is twice as wide as the Milky Way, stretching over two hundred thousand light-years across. It is massive, but let's think bigger in this picture alone taken by the Hubble telescope there are thousands of stars. billion 237 million three hundred thirty three thousand eight hundred ninety miles inside of all that is you, you live in this tiny tiny portion of the Milky Way, but even still our galaxy is a little runt compared with some

Just three billion years after the formation of the Earth, some of the objects observed here might have formed as long as 11 billion years ago.

Just keep in mind that this is a picture of a very small small part of the universe, so if you ever feel upset about your favorite show being canceled or the fact that they play Christmas music way too early, just remember this is your home earth. This period of time, just three billion years after the Big Bang, is considered to be one of the busiest star-forming periods.

Scientists and historians are great at their jobs and can draw general conclusions about life on Earth and human history from tiny clues and pieces of evidence, but occasionally they come across something that completely stumps them. These are these strange and wonderful places around the world that are amazing to see but impossible to understand even by scientists.

While smaller trees do occasionally grow on top of larger ones, it's very uncommon to see two fully grown trees coexisting and thriving like this. Usually, one of the trees' good health will come at the expense of the other, and it's usually the tree on top that suffers. However, as the cherry tree's stunning white flowers show, that isn't always the case.