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This is a follow-up to my previous post Even Our Sun is Tiny but this time a video (via digg) shows you how small we really are and which monstrously large objects are “floating” around in our galaxy.

A size comparison¹ of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system VV Cephei) can be found at Wikipedia. VV Cephei A is 1600-1900 times the size of the Sun and 275,000-575,000 times as luminous.

Distance between Earth and Sun: 149,597,870 km²
Max. diameter of VV Cephei A: 2,645,750,000 km³

If you imagine the Sun as a one millimeter dot, VV Cephei A is nearly two meters in diameter.
Earth imagined as a one millimeter dot makes VV Cephei A 207 meters in diameter!

Even more interesting facts.

1. alternate link; SVG format ↩
2. 149,598,000 km is one astronomical unit ↩
3. The video states a different size for VV Cephei (which actually is the name of a binary star system). The above value is the best I could calculate for VV Cephei A. ↩

tags: Antares, Arcturus, Beteigeuze, Earth, galaxy, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Mu Cephei, Neptune, planets, Pollux, Rigel, Saturn, Sirius, space, Sun, Venus, VV Cephei

Posted on Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 06:31 by Daniel M. Gattermann. This Post is filed under Earth, Movies, Universe. You can follow responses through the and view other blogs commenting on this post. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site.