Tag: sun

How small are we:

  • with a dot from a sharpened pencil point as the sun
  • all planets, our solar system, would be inside a circle with a 7′ diameter
    • Mercury = .4″ radius
    • Venus = .7″ radius
    • Earth = 1″ radius
    • Mars = 1.6″ radius
    • Jupiter = 5.2″ radius
    • Saturn = 9.5″ radius
    • Uranus = 19.2″ radius
    • Neptune = 30″ radius
    • Pluto = 39.5″ radius
  • the closest star to our solar system, Alpha Centauri (which is about the size of our sun), would be 4.5 miles away