Unbelievable Pictures Showing How Small Earth Really Is!

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By compu-smart

It really is a small world we live on!

If you’ve ever had trouble grasping the true sizes involved in astronomy and the size of earth compared to other planets and stars, as you will see here. The scales involved are mind boggleing. You just won’t believe how huge and mind blowingly big they are

They say the universe contained “billions and billions of stars” and that we are the only "intelligent" life in the universe.....Its hard to beleive that we could possibly be alone in this universe..The new Google Earth's has some excellent views of space!! See your house from Space too!

The following pictures are one of the best visual pictures that I have ever seen, that shows pretty clearly just how insignificant earth actually is.

Prepare to feel really small..!!

Here are the inner planets, the small rocky bodies cloe to the sun and Earth looks pretty big here. Our neighbour is almost our size, but we are the biggest of the bunch.
As we travel farther out, we encounter gas giants, huge balls of gas that are make our inner planets seem so small in comparison.Even Pluto is barely visible here.
Arcturus is one of the brightest stars in the sky, and you can see that size is one reason why in comparison to our sun. Notice that Earth isn’t even visible at this scale, and Jupiter, the giant among planets in our system, is just a single pixel o
At the centre of our system is a burning ‘gas giant’ that completely dwarfs even the biggest planet, Jupiter. Earth is barely visible At this scale, and Pluto is little more than a pixel on the image. The diameter comparison between the earth and the
But even Arcturus is dwarfed by the super-giants, massive red stars that would swallow huge chunk of our solar system. Antares and Betelgeuse, if they were placed at our Sun’s location, would easily envelope Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars … Antares’
So..... are you feeling insignificant now?

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jeyaramd Level 5 Commenter 6 weeks ago

This hub gives a whole new meaning to the saying "its a small world". I think we should be more environmentally conscious in safeguarding our little earth. Global warming and environmental issues are very real. Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures. Great hub.

Bob 13 months ago

Yep, other planets and other stars are much bigger...

but the space in between is billions of times larger.

nick 16 months ago

i... feel.... so....

SMALL ...

krishna 21 months ago

Hey compu-smart,

Thanks for this wonderful piece of information. Although I wouldn't feel insignificant we are. Just understand the human developed technology is able to give such comparisons,facts.Lets believe in years to come we unravel much more mysteries.Hats off to our scientists!!!

LA 22 months ago

how exactly does looking at a red ball help with depression

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PhotoShowMan4U 23 months ago

Nice photos! May be I should do a Photo Show on the Planets.

unknown 2 years ago

those pictures r really awsome.i never knew how small the earth is

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Jmobia 2 years ago

How unlucky for me!

I just built a hub around some images I found on the internet a long time ago. The images are almost exactly like yours except yours are 3d and mine aren't.

Check it out if you want!

http://hubpages.com/hub/Space-is-huge

Claire 2 years ago

Good pictures. They are pretty cool.

kush singh 2 years ago

...........really Unbelieveable and Incredable .

passin'by 3 years ago

Good infomations

Abbas 3 years ago

Thank you for the permission.

... and glad to hear u feel better now compu-smart. Something had to be done after u lost ur sleep because of my comments a little while back (about 2 weeks ago) lol!

Sweet Dreams ... Have fun.

Sincerely,

A Student of Life.

Abbas 3 years ago

I dont think this stuff is too too bad anymore ... well so long as we dont discover giant humans on other planets (like Antares) that have also discovered in their lives that their planet is as puny as our earth is in these pictures lol ...

that would be just sad ... and that i think is an understatement!! lol

and hey u can sleep peacefully so long as we can be sure that we are not just some chemical elements for giants on other planets (like we "earthlings" use atoms/molecules for science experiments lol) ... hmm, what particle would we be? alpha is taken lol!!

also, can i copy these images compu-smart?

alisha 3 years ago

Great picture!!!!!!!!!! hoping for many more too

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Kulsum Mehmood Level 2 Commenter 3 years ago

Makes me feel so small and insignificant. For all egoists this hub is a great ego-buster. Good photographs compu-smart

Abbas 3 years ago

lovely ... so do I exist? ... goes to show that nothing could happen merely by "chance" ... all creation has to be guided. The complexity of even a human that is infinitely tiny on the shown scale has even tinier stuff that helps in survival of species. God's creation is awesome! ... Still scary ... I still am unsure if I exist!! (not literally) ... and if there is some creature on some big planet, they would be monsters ... it's a good thing they have not been discovered yet!! we would be like dust in their toenails!! :(

Ashley Eklund 3 years ago

Does anyone know the original source of these images?

abhishek(nepal) 3 years ago

wow!! it's really unbelievable and amazing images i am really happy to seeing it. it's very nice

thnx

Asghar Ali Soomro 3 years ago

Its really amazing and remind us about the creater of this universe. Who is one and only that is Almighty ALLAH.

carlyle 3 years ago

"it really satisfied my hungry on unbelievable pictures"

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Eric G. 3 years ago

very cool. I give you a 10 for entertainment. Even my room mate was impressed with your earth size pictures. thanks

Sreeman 3 years ago

it really satisfied my hungry on unbelievable pictures

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nashomega 3 years ago

this is Fantastic... We are just another dot in space! That is true!

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thecounterpunch 4 years ago

Great pictures good job :)

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Jewels Level 3 Commenter 4 years ago

Depression sure does suck. Keep moving your butt, I do and it helps. LOL.

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