World Biggest Star Planet - Order of Magnitude
Ok, so how big is our planet Earth? 
I mean, compare to other planets… In the following pictures, you’ll start to appreciate how small earth is!!!
In solar system, Earth > Venus > Mars > Mercury > Pluto
Note: On August 24, 2006, Pluto loses its status as a planet, declared by International Astronomical Union’s (IAU), after several years of debate since its discovery in 1930. What’s the definition of a planet? Read more here.
Jupiter > Saturn > Uranus ≈ Neptune > Earth
So, earth is the 5th biggest planet in the solar system. 
The sun is way bigger than earth, yet it looks so small in the sky.
Ok, let’s get serious. There are stars bigger than Sun. 
For examples, Sirius, Pollux, Arcturus…etc. Jupiter is only 1 pixel in the picture and the Earth is invisible in this scale.
Ok, how about stars bigger than Arcturus? You bet! Antares > Betelgeuse > Aldebaran > Rigel > Arcturus. Our sun is only 1 pixel in this scale and Jupiter is invisible now!!! Holy cow, imagine that the Earth is sitting beside Antares. Earth will be totally torched and the water evaporates.
Hold on…there ARE stars even bigger than Antares. See this video.
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jimmacdonald said,
August 11, 2006
glad i found you
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Aaron Stokes said,
August 12, 2006
In a universe so large let’s never think more of ourself than necessary, while also remembering that although we are very small in physical size compared to giants such as Antares, just as the moon reflects the light of the sun.. so to the stars reflect the light of love that comes from the human spirit.
Never forget how critical our role is, to love and be loved unconditionally.. knowing that we are all dust in the solar winds!
maggot said,
August 12, 2006
hmm. i feel so insignificant now…
er, thanks…?
ron2 said,
August 12, 2006
nice pics
btw those smilies look a lot like yahoo’s
Prospectus said,
August 13, 2006
OMFG Sunzors McStars!
Copperheadbill said,
August 14, 2006
You know how some people say the planets are just Cheerios in a big bowl? The Earth doesn’t even look like a marshmallow compared to those things
!
Some dude said,
August 14, 2006
that kind of eliminates the meaning of big or small. what if Antares is only as big as an atom? and there’s an even bigger world out there. strange to think about
Velerie said,
August 14, 2006
OMG, this world is too big to think.
I’m sure there are even bigger stars waiting for discovery. By the time we see them, it’s already billions of light years old. Who knows exactly what’s happening to them RIGHT NOW when the light we see in the sky is that old??!!
masoom said,
August 15, 2006
Put a man in the above picture and compare, which makes above comparison useless coz for our size earth is enough big.
tye said,
August 15, 2006
so this must be the very foundations of the idea for the Total Perspective Vortex. Hehe….sorry, some Douglas Adams humor seemed appropriate.
Ravi said,
August 15, 2006
Big enough for what Masoon?
Phil, quoting douglas adams said,
August 15, 2006
The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.
‘’Have some sense of proportion!'’
she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of
proportion.
FaRuK said,
August 16, 2006
Cooooollllll….
Roberto said,
August 16, 2006
That’s good comparison !
As a christian I am not that big surprised for we know the Creator is magnificent!
aidan said,
August 17, 2006
ok antares is………………
big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cam not belv the ther wos a star bigger than tha sun coooooooooooooooooooool!
Steve Kay said,
August 20, 2006
Douglas Adams was an amazing vouyer with an articulate way of expressing himself (I wish he would have written more). I wonder what he would have done with String theory, todays prevailing Physics ‘theory of everything’ that says the entire universe is in fact composed of tiny strings [perhaps they total 42] the 11 dimentions (our 3 spacial dimentions plus time {or as Dr Sues would say “11 this is something new I wish I had 11 too}), “M” theory and the uncanny connection to what Jewish mysticism said about the universe’s makeup some 2000 years ago being made up of 10 spheres and strings of energy (+1 made up of time) 6 of which “fell” (or as todays scientests will tell you, shrunk) {Did I really call Douglas Adams A Vouyer?}
Here’s a link to PBS’s Nova video on demand miniserries explaining some of this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
Steve
cg3p9@yahoo.com
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Prokoba said,
August 22, 2006
I must agree with Aaron Stokes.this is so true!
thant zin said,
August 23, 2006
thank you so much .. you’re very knowledgeable..
Tim said,
August 23, 2006
This is really cool. How did you make the planets?
Jerry said,
August 23, 2006
What about the Pistol Star which was discovered by Hubble in 1990. THis is the largest star found to date…it is much larger than Antares.
Simon said,
August 23, 2006
In terms of mass and brightness, Pistal Star is #1. But volumn-wise, I think Antares is #1.
poethetic said,
August 24, 2006
Dear reader, we’re all glad you are here, for without your observations none of us would exist. We stars would be unloved, invisible and undistinguished. Mark my words, my friend: we’d suffer terribly in the knowledge that we have no meaning, no purpose. But, thanks to you, gentle reader, your observations of us have given us a reason to be. A reason to shine. A reason to live.
Peter said,
August 26, 2006
Great comparisons, certainly puts things into perspective, in an understandable visual manor
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August 31, 2006
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ShootingStars said,
September 1, 2006
Corey Chastain said,
September 1, 2006
DAGUM thats …….cool …….i guess
Bug said,
September 2, 2006
And now pluto is not a planet xD woot for floating rocks?
t-bone said,
September 2, 2006
hey aaron stokes, why does a picture of planets make you want to love everyone unconditionally?
Ted W. said,
September 2, 2006
Wow, this just re-enforces my opinions that humans are not the only race in existance and that imagine how large we are as humans. Now thing of how small our SUN is compared to some of the others. Would this necesarrily mean that the planets rotating around those suns are even larger potentially and that those planets could hold larger beings than ourselves…Image just how large of a being could live on a planet that is the size of our sun seeing how small our sun is compared to Antares
Mini said,
September 3, 2006
Eddie Bautista said,
September 3, 2006
It really makes you feel so insignificant and as if we are sub-atomic particles in the overall grandiosity of the universe.
Greg from Philadelphia, Pa, USA, Earth said,
September 5, 2006
Um, yup. just look at how big jupiter is compared to earth. think if they have inhabitants scaled as big as us and living in as many dimensions (to scale) as us, how insignificant we are to them as maybe cockroaches are to us. then to take into account those other systems of stars who knows (someone) how much bigger than our own, it becomes rediculous how we fight and lust over greedy things instead of trying to preserve our unique little area in this vast space known as space.
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Charles said,
September 6, 2006
Go check out Cosmic Voyage. It’s an IMAX film that shows how big and small everything is, and it’s amazing. It makes you feel much like this did.
Bob said,
September 6, 2006
woah… makes me think soo deep…
its like help me god!
Dan said,
September 6, 2006
I think all of you have the wrong idea. Life on a planet the size of our sun would be smaller, not larger. Consider that whales, which are the largest animals on our planet, live in the ocean where their weight is supported by a dense fluid. A human would be crushed under his own weight on a planet the size of the sun.
Pleace out everyone.
john said,
September 6, 2006
and this is all by accident. Makes me feel good to know God is in control of the heavens and the earth. Looks like things could be a little out of my hands to fix.
sonal said,
September 7, 2006
Verrry Nice. Love the Douglas Adams quote’s too - certainly a total perspective vortex, perhaps the IAU shd employ it in re to Pluto…hmm…
Jim Tarrant said,
September 8, 2006
meneame.net said,
September 8, 2006
De la Tierra a La estrella más grande del universo
Interesante comparación de varios tamaños planetarios: Desde la tierra (comparada con nuestro Sistema Solar) hasta grandes estrellas que dejan a nuestro planeta como un insignificante punto en el espacio.
gordon said,
September 9, 2006
The Russian astronaut who went into space and circled the earth said he didn’t find God anywhere….well, he’s not a good-looker. He obviously didn’t look hard or long enough.
I now fully believe there is superior intelligent life around the sirius star system.
gordon said,
September 11, 2006
I must be a lupine and the Pharoahs of ancient Egypt are lupines too. They wanted to travel to the Sirius star system after death. Who can say they are not there now? True consciousness allows for this.
Robert Moore said,
September 11, 2006
Without reading the whole plot, isn’t there a desiginated realm of activity that is picturized. Or do you actually have to know a physical start and end of everything by saying this is that way, and this is the time of year. Doesn’t there be an outer view and inner view at any giving time showing are designated position in our orbit? If so where do you get it and /or how do you get that order of operations to senses?
Elliott said,
September 14, 2006
i was like……….
when i saw how big antares was i was more like 
but really whose counting and this is so cool it helped me with my science project
Rhonda said,
September 16, 2006
Stunningly, gloriously, magnificent! Perhaps being a part of all this is why Nirvana feels so great. And God said “made in his likeness” too. Rest up and feel it all!
As Greg from Philadelphia, 5th Sept, says. Let’s not fight and lust over small and greedy things.
Let go, and be a knowing part of such magnificence instead.
Chris said,
September 17, 2006
Paraphrasing Dave Barry, since I don’t have the exact words handy, “Scientists will tell you the entire universe started out as an extremely dense particle smaller than an atom, which then exploded in the Big Bang.
This of course is absurd. There is nothing more densely packed than my garage. Hence, the universe began the size of my garage plus one atom.”
ezgui said,
September 18, 2006
i wonder if there is a life going on or waiting for the resurrection out there.
maybe another sun is making the future heaven livable
what is life?
Emily said,
September 19, 2006
I didn’t know that there was a star bigger than the sun! Hmmmmm…
But, anyway, I personaly think that this website is AWSOME!!!
People say that Pluto isn’t a planet. Just a suggestion, but, can you compare the star called Antares with a tiny, winy, itsy, bitsy meteoride or an MOLUCULE!
This is what I would say if I were a toddler. “I WANNA HAVE MORE!!!” 
But, anyway, people say that the moon is made out of cheese so… CHEESE!!! 
Jeff said,
September 20, 2006
Its sad and funny how people in power tell us the way we must be and what we must do. If they could only comprehend how tiny we really are and if erased from this universe who is to care. Hopefully only God. His love is the only reason we still exist. Wake up people!
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Mary Katherine said,
September 24, 2006
I love feeling so small. It makes me feel free.
Greg said,
October 4, 2006
Thank you so much for these pics – I keep coming back to them because they give me such a sense of our insignificance, and serve as a reminder of how tiny we are. I imagine there are stars that dwarf Antares, just as it dwarfs the planet we inhabit. What a mind-boggling thought!
Again, thanks.
Joven said,
October 10, 2006
OK so Antares is larger than betelgeuse? I dont think so. I got so many astronomy books and says that betelgeuse is far larger than antares. Also, there’s a new largest star discovered. The biggest star Hershels Barnard star was beaten up from the largest to the fourth. So now the new biggest star is VV Cephei.The red one has the biggest diameter ever measured at a star. If it would be at the place of the Sun, it would include the orbit of Saturn. Its capacity is nearly 20 billion times that of the Sun.
Go to http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/vv-cephei.shtml and see for yourself!
leelee said,
October 11, 2006
Woah!!!!!! Thats amazing!!!!! Cool!!!!!!!!! its just so….. i don’t know….. crazy.
Margie Mirage said,
October 19, 2006
There’s plenty of free energy out there. As a matter of fact it’s here too since our Sun is growing as well as Mother Earth. Check out my site to watch it grow. When we look at ourself from a Universal standpoint, our petty problems don’t seem that big anymore do they?
P4ulo Lacerda said,
October 22, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_stars
Jack said,
October 22, 2006
Mmm…how did astronomists measure the size of all those stars?
Jeefferson Crocker Lincoln said,
October 22, 2006
Hey dudes was gorgeus share this knowledgment with all of ya this may shows us how you all are insignificant, the universe is wonderful don´t you think!!!
this girl said,
October 26, 2006
Starburst said,
November 20, 2006
Compared to antaress the sun is tiny i think that is so kool!!!!!!!!!!
i wonder
are ther really aliens on mars
well see ya!
GOOD LUCK WITH THE WEBSITE
OH yeahhappy thanksgiving!!!!
and merry Christmas
taquirA said,
November 20, 2006
i WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S THE BIGGEST STAR AND THE SMALLEST.THEN WHO HAS THE BRIGHTEST MAGNITUDE OUT OF THE 2
james kirk said,
December 8, 2006
Well, well, well, seems that u have discovered the magic formula for water…Antares, so small…hohohoho…ive been there many times, grab all those marvelous Antarian babies…There are a lot of planets bigger than that poor and short Antares…Earth ? doesnt exist anymore…
JesusFreak said,
December 12, 2006
Yeah, and as a Christian I’m really put into my place when I consider that God is WAAAAAAAAAY bigger than the entire solar system–trillions and trillions of stars and galexies, trillions and trillions of times bigger than the biggest big thing you can ever think of–and God is bigger than that. Whoa–It gives you a better respect for creation.
Recent said,
December 19, 2006
Actually, just recently discovered the star LBV 1806-20 could be the largest, and most luminous star ever discovered. Its mass is about 140 times that of the sun. It’s radius is 150 times that of the sun and it is 30 million times more luminous than the sun. This star is about 40,000 light years away from Earth. The other side of the galaxy.
Paul said,
January 1, 2007
what about my cephei and w cephei could you show them in scale?
Paul said,
January 1, 2007
wheres the earths moon in all of this
Donald said,
January 2, 2007
Well, I had inferiority complex _before_ this.
What now???
I can inform you that W Cephei is _even_much_bigger_ than Antares. 3,3 times Antares diameter.
W Cepei is 288 000 times the Earts diameter! 3 676 200 000 km.
Jon said,
January 17, 2007
If God is the Great Architect of the Universe why did he make us so frigging small. I can only asume he cant read architectural drawings
Kris Mattew said,
January 25, 2007
Hey man
!!!!!!!!
but e-mail me instead LOL
I LOVE THIS SITE
Later
Kris
Out
Bertin said,
February 19, 2007
One word: Amazing!!!!,
Audge said,
February 19, 2007
Largest star known is VV Cephei, not “W” Cephei. A lot of people make that mistake.
Charles Cook said,
February 20, 2007
Coooooooool
hahe said,
February 23, 2007
all the things about the planets are cooooool
Jose Antonio said,
February 25, 2007
Then wich is the biggest star in the Universe and where is it?
Kyle said,
March 12, 2007
Wareagle said,
March 24, 2007
http://digg.com/space/How_big_are_we_With_pictures
DIGG IT!
yohi!!!! said,
March 25, 2007
yo said,
March 29, 2007
yay il like planets and stars they blind me
Mindy said,
April 21, 2007
Gee, that is a really good scale, but you are missing My Cephei and VV Cephei… They are both bigger than Antares…
But other than that, great job!
............ said,
May 13, 2007
READ THIS!
There are stars however that are bigger than w cephie, there is LBV 1806-20, pistol star, Eta Carinae, P-cygni, S Doradus…Yer forot dem!!! LBV 1806-20 is the biggest star we know and it is HUGE
but like always there is another star called the blue minster for the reason of… yes it is HUGER and is probably the biggest in the big milky way which could be small to the even bigger galaxies of which could miniscule to the universe.
............ said,
May 13, 2007
OH yer i almost forot, the universe is to buig for us to find the biggest star, tust me, more stars thaen every grain of sand on earth, more galaxies too, there are billions of galaxies containing trillions of stars that is TRILLIONS OF STARS AND BILLIONS OF GALAXIES
john said,
May 17, 2007
sirius said,
May 21, 2007
person and other person said,
May 31, 2007
thnx,it didnt help our project but it was still cool to look at!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tanmay said,
June 9, 2007
there are stars bigger than antares KY cygni
for one star.were tiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leo McKitten said,
July 4, 2007
cool! i love this and im gonna show all my mates!
observable or not said,
July 12, 2007
at this time there is no way to know the biggest star in the universe. light can only travel about 186000 miles per second (11,160,000mph) which is 97,761,600,000 miles a year
. the universe has been around for about 13.7 billion years, so 
… we can only see up to 1.3×10^21 miles 
. which means the milky way is about one millionth of the observable universe… ANYWAY, we cant see the whole universe, we can only see as far as light goes in 13.7 billion years.
Rhen Herzl said,
July 14, 2007
gosh!!!
![:-\](http://www.samtsai.com/smilies/yahoo_question.gif ":-\")
what are the stars bigger than antares?
we are so so tiny…,
i like it.. its very nice!!
sanjay kishore said,
July 17, 2007
can any one tell me about the movement of the planets
movement of planets said,
July 23, 2007
everything that has mass has gravity. our sun have a lot of mass, so they have enough gravity to have planets. planets also have gravity to go against the sun’s gravitational pull. otherwise, the sun’s gravity would pull the planets into it. this is called inertia. both the planet and the suns gravity causes the planet to go around the sun, but the planets are veeeerry slowly falling into the sun. this is off the top of my head so if anything is wrong then, oh well…
me said,
July 26, 2007
the biggest star EVER is- LBV 1806-20
Look at the pic in google, and you’ll see how massive it is.
georgia said,
August 9, 2007
do you have more pics on the planets and solar system.
Drew said,
August 31, 2007
Ok the title kills me “Worlds biggest star” there is NO worlds biggest star. There is NO star on this world. The universes biggest known star would be appropriate. Also, the name for our sun isn’t the sun, it’s Sol.
jeriatric said,
September 15, 2007
Another perspective;
Scale of the Universe
http://www.astrosurf.com/benschop/Scale.htm
Really puts my golf game in a laughable perspective.
sophie said,
September 20, 2007
sweeeeet im so into this stuff
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mariluz said,
October 17, 2007
Whooo
,this stuf is sooooo cooooooooooollllll
nick campbell said,
October 25, 2007
this is awsome i did not realiz there were stars that much bigger than the sun!!
Romit said,
October 27, 2007
wow! Is incredible, Thanks!!! this photograps are great!!
anstonio said,
November 6, 2007
To all the religious people out there, does it not seem like you,ve been cheated out of believing that GOD created us,just 2 more words for you,s BIG BANG
Mima said,
November 12, 2007
Waseem said,
November 12, 2007
Is there a comparing of all the stars visible in the night sky, such as Polaris
Wayne said,
November 17, 2007
I’m glad I found this video! I need to give an imformative speech and this will be perfect if I can show it!
genelyn said,
November 27, 2007
very amazing i was really amaze
zelda said,
December 10, 2007
oh bugga
Zack Kidwiler said,
December 14, 2007
John Brookshaw said,
December 16, 2007
i
when people will be living on the moon and mars ever? also how do we no thee isnt another sun out there with like anoither planet earth orbiting it so there mite be life out there.
thankyou
Kind regards John Brookshaw
Greeshma said,
December 29, 2007
I was shocked
to see our planet Earth so small. But its Wonderful
nick b said,
January 12, 2008
Kyo said,
January 15, 2008
Woah! To think that there could be, in some miraculous way, other planets with life orbiting those other Stars, That’s AMAZING!
Moto said,
January 24, 2008
The biggest star is the Pistol Star….look it up…..really cool!
just for universe lovers (and mee, lol) said,
February 4, 2008
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/
nice picts of the universe
oh yeah nice site but VY Canis Majoris is biger read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
Spystrike said,
February 21, 2008
Hey Chris, dont you think what a black hole is? There is a part in the exact center of the black hole with infinite density, thus having infinite gravity; thats how it even sucks in even light energy. It may be that the universe was made from one enormous black hole that became so big it bursted and shot matter every where. Now that is very debate-able because black holes don’t emit energy or matter because of its gravity. So maybe there is another type of space cataclyptic event that is related to black holes that hold matter and energy and shot it all in every direction, but that will take emense amounts of energy that doesn’t even exist. Further I just realized that black holes take matter and the matter can’t come back. If black holes have “white holes” pop up anywhere else in the universe than the object would just desintegrate for the opposite of infinite attraction is infinite push, thus the object would be one fast comet like an electron. If an exact opposite popped out of no where it would either be sucked in the black hole and if one was to pop out and escape it would cancel out the original thus shrinking its mass. This all is just to prove that some super natural occurence has occured and scientist haven’t realized it. They might find out at the end of time, maybe not; the world will end on June 6, 2012 at 6:06 Pm.
im cool said,
February 27, 2008
planets are VERY intresting i learned alot about them in my science class!
Billy said,
March 1, 2008
Deneb, of Cygnus, is big enough to fit our whole solar system within. Scales of biological entities trying to understand beyond geological contexts to cosmological celestial dome phenomena demands some effort or imagination.
camille! said,
March 4, 2008
Joy said,
March 7, 2008
What is the next biggest planets???
Niall J McCarthy said,
March 10, 2008
If you could touch one of the Jovian planets would you die?
CaTaStRoPhIcA said,
March 13, 2008
Um yeah, Antares isn’t the larges… The Cephei’s are larger. Go to youtube and look up “stars put to scale.”
Gavin's Class of Cool Kids said,
May 7, 2008
Wow!!!! We just charted stars and Didn’t realize how huge they are> Wow!!!!!!!!
Jazz said,
June 6, 2008
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole universe (as large as it is) was created just so the planet Earth could exist. If that were truly the case then our exploration of space (to look for another planet to exploit and lay waste to) would be a futile waste of time and money which means that we would then have to focus on how to look after our Earth and everything on it in order to preserve what we have. Now wouldn’t that just be awful, to think that we would actually have to stay and clean up our own back yard instead of polluting it and moving on only to pollute another back yard and move on etc etc etc.
Seren X said,
June 24, 2008
Hay very intersing !!!
Seren X said,
June 24, 2008
Hay where is the Sirius star ??? i confused !!
Bethany Pike said,
June 27, 2008
helllo can you give me other namesfor star? bethany
James said,
July 19, 2008
Roberto said,
August 16, 2006
That’s good comparison !
As a christian I am not that big surprised for we know the Creator is magnificent!
————-
Well, please tell us why “the Creator” dont even know about solar systems. Ever read the bible? and don’t give me the “he left it for us to find out” BS either, it’s simply just not good enough. Religion don’t belong in space, it’s manmade.
PS: good scale! left out My Cephei tho
jake in spain said,
July 28, 2008
And i thought the biggest was the Sun.Know i’ve seen them omg!!!!!
PEACE OUT
¡¡¡¡¡LOL!!!!!
jake in spain said,
July 28, 2008
Just think how many days would it take on Antares if u lived on it.
Yamina Rehman said,
August 14, 2008
Hi
The solar system is too big that it is difficult for us to determine its length and still now new planets are being discoverd in the solar system. I wonder when a telescope will be built to see the end of the solar system, i think i will take too long to discover it at as whole.
Yamina Rehman
Sargodha, PAKISTAN
14th Aug 2008 (Pakistan’s 61st Independence Day)