Movie that VFX artist expressed in miniature size, 'How small the earth and the sun are compared with stars in the universe?'

The Earth is the fourth largest planet in the solar system, larger than Mercury , Mars , Venus, smaller than Neptune , Uranus , Saturn and Jupiter . Although it is difficult to feel the size of planets even if explained by numbers and words, it is difficult to feel the size of the planets, but a movie that compared the earth and the other stars in the universe using VFX used in special effects movies and dramas is YouTube It is published in.

VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of the Universe


Many people have seen images showing the size of stars in the universe as a list.

Such images accurately represent the size of the planet and understand that there are many stars in the universe larger than the sun. However, as a result of too many numbers becoming too large, it is sometimes hard to understand how much other stars are larger compared to stars in the solar system.

"I know that the sun is small if you see it on the universe scale, but it's hard to understand how small it is," he said. So this time ...

I will try to fix the scale of the sun and express the size of other planets compared to the sun in miniature size.

The scale ratio is 1: 190 million. In order to realize the stars clearly, it has to be miniaturized to such a degree.

It is about this size that we shrunk the earth and made it to 1 / 910,000.

It became the same size as the tennis ball.

The moon is even smaller and is as big as the thumb nail.

Here one question arises. When thinking with this miniature size, it is a question of how far the moon and the earth are apart.

The reporter conducted an interview. When asking a man wearing the cap in the backward direction, spreading both hands lightly and answering "This is about".

When asking a man who lay down on the cushion, she showed a slightly larger distance than the previous man ... ...

When asking the glasses men, I answered that it is only a distance of about ten centimeters. The distance to think about by people is various.

A man who said that "I have received a lecture on the universe" showed a distance of about ten centimeters as "This is about this".

Then, what is the correct answer ... ...

It will be about 7 feet (about 210 cm) away. It seems that the earth and the moon are far apart than people imagine.

The distance between the moon and the earth is about 380,000 km.

Interestingly, planning the solar system planes next to the earth ... ...

The distance between Moon and Earth fits entirely from Mercury to Neptune. In addition, it seems that it will fit even further if Pluto is added.

When considering the earth as the size of the tennis ball, the size of Jupiter is about this. When it is put on the ground, it has a size up to around the thigh of an adult, and it is the size that 1300 Tennis ball large earths will fit. I would like to compare this with the sun as it is ... ...

In order to compare with the sun, we have to go outside.

When considering the earth as the size of a tennis ball, the sun is about this. Without looking up, the sun of a size invisible to the top appeared.

The diameter of the sun is approximately 24 feet (about 7 m 30 cm). It is big enough to block the road. In this, 1.3 million Tennis Ball Earths are available.

However, even if it is a sun of this size, it is not so big a star if you look in space. For example, Sirius of the Aza , the brightest star other than the sun seen from the earth ... ...

It is much bigger than a little building.

Sirius is only 8.6 light years away from the earth, and the intensity of light that it emits is twenty times that of the sun.

When considering the earth as a tennis ball size, Sirius has a diameter of 66 feet (about 20 m).

In addition, Bootes is the brightest star in the Arcturus is ......

Sirius is big enough to be seen only by small balls. The diameter when the earth is tennis ball size is about 610 feet (about 185 m). There are about 2 soccer fields.

Arcturus is moving in a different direction from our galaxy stars and thought that it was thought that it was swallowed into the Milky Way billions of years ago though it was born in another galaxy about.

When it comes to Rigel which is a star of Orion the ... ...

It is a size bigger than about 541 m of 1 World Trade Center which is a skyscraper in New York.

Rigel is a very young star, it seems to be only about 8 million years after birth ... ...

Compared with about 4.6 billion years of the sun is a baby.

Rigel is believed to eventually cause a supernova explosion .

Not all stars cause a supernova explosion, for example the sun is expected to expand and grow bigger ... ...

It will be bigger than the current 256 times, Rigel after 5 billion years.

In such a case, the Earth will naturally be swallowed, but after one billion years from before it will dry up the Earth's ocean, it is no longer an environment where living things can survive, so do not worry.

Betelgeus , a star of the same Orion squad as Rigel, said the diameter is over 8 km even if the earth is tennis balls big.

It will be calculated ten times as tall as Burj Khalifa (height about 828 m), the world's tallest building.

Betelgeuse may cause supernova explosion within the next million years ... ...

In that case the light emitted is brighter than the full moon and it seems to be considered to continue shining for about a month.

But even such Betelgeus is not the biggest star discovered by humans. The top that is called the top of the top UY star ... ....

It is an ultra-huge star thought to boast a diameter that will be 1,700 times larger than the sun, and when placed on the earth it feels like this size.

Rigel is felt very small ... ....

Even Betelgeuse is slightly smaller.

The diameter exceeds 12 km and the upper end of the lattice UY star comes above the altitude at which the aircraft is flying.

In the universe there are so big stars, so the earth is only a tennis ball big scale.