How Big Is The Solar System?

Commercial Purposes ► Lorenzovareseaziendale@ Our New Website ► If we watch the sky on a clear night, far away from the pollution of the cities, we immediately understand that the universe is huge.  It is just a sensation, perhaps based on naive and intuitive reasoning: if we see a lot of stars, let’s say, thousands, maybe millions of means the universe is really, really big.  I mean, the planets themselves, are big. We know that the Earth itself, is big, and yet it is a quite small planet, compared to gaseous balls like Jupiter or Saturn... Despite that, though, it is still big for us, humans. Man, we are so small! Then, if we take into consideration the distances between planets or the distances between stars, are hard to picture. It’s hard to have a feeling of how distant really the planets or the stars are.  Have you ever wondered how big our Solar system is? This question might seem very simple to answer, but is it? Let’s give the real numbers first.  Light would from the Sun takes about 555 days to reach the edge of the Solar System compared to minutes to reach the Earth. It’s clear we’re talking about some IMMENSE distances which can be hard to imagine. Broadly speaking, the diameter of the entire solar system is times the distance from the Sun to Earth. If you managed to design and build a spacecraft traveling at the speed of light, it would basically take one year and a half to reach the end of the solar system.  Don’t worry though, because it would be a very nice trip: you wouldn’t get bored at all! For instance, approaching Jupiter, you would see that it would take 11 Earths to fit across its diameter.  However, we will probably never be able to travel at the speed of light, so the trip might get boring.  If we had to travel on a planet, at normal speed, it would take us over 570 years to get to the dark, cold, and blue Neptune.  Of course, our patience would then be rewarded by this amazing view:  “If You happen to see any content that is yours, and we didn’t give credit in the right manner please let us know at Lorenzovareseaziendale@ and we will correct it immediately“ “Some of our visual content is under an Attribution-ShareAlike license. () in its different versions such as 1.0, 2.0, 3,0, and 4.0 – permitting commercial sharing with attribution given in each picture accordingly in the video.“ Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr 00:00 Intro 1:09 Solar system facts 7:14 The perspective of light #insanecuriosity #thesolarsystem #solarsystemfacts