Are You Feeling Small Yet?

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Just some fun facts about our Universe. The largest country on Earth is Russia. A car driving non-stop at a constant speed of 65 mph would take approximately 77 hours to drive across Russia. The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 238,857 miles. A car driving non-stop at a constant speed of 65 mph would take approximately 10 yrs 1 month to drive to the Moon. Whenever you look up at the Sun, you are seeing 8 minutes 31 seconds into the past. That's how long it takes the Sun's light to travel to Earth. Jupiter is the 5th and largest planet in our solar system. It's diameter is 88,846 miles across. It is 390,682,810 miles from Earth at our closest orbits. Neptune is the last planet in our solar system. It is 2.7 trillion miles from Earth. The closest star to us, outside our solar system, is Proxima Centauri. Traveling at light speed (670 million miles per hour) it would take more than 4 years to reach it. The star Betelgeuse, which can be seen in the constellation Orion, is 640 light years from Earth. It is one of the largest suns visible to us with the naked eye. You would have to set 180,000 Earths side by side to reach across it's diameter. There are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way is just one of billions of observable galaxies in our Universe. According to some theoretical physicists, our Universe may be just one of many dimensions in a Multiverse. Are you feeling small yet?