Scales of the Universe
Scale 1 to 4 x 107
30 ft (240,000 miles)
1 ft (8000 miles) 3 in (2000 miles)
Earth Moon
To Sun 2 miles
To Pluto 80 miles
To α-Centauri 650,000 miles
Sun (100 ft in diameter)
Jupiter (10 ft in diameter)
Scale 1 to 1.4 x 1017
1 ft (4 years)
α-Centauri
Across Milky Way 5 miles (contains 100,000 million stars)
To Andromeda 100 miles (2 million years)
Solar system
.003"
Scale 1 to 7 x 1022
1 ft (2 million years)
Milky Way Andromeda
"Across" the Universe about 1 mile (contains 100,000 million galaxies)
AJM:9/12/99
