Take a Look at Your Challenges in Terms of Space Size
Whether you need a break from your Twitter feed or Facebook news feed – or constant updates on the state of the changing political landscape in our country – here’s what can make you and your concerns instantly feel insignificant: the size of the space . This website, created by Neil Agarwal , compares your physical size to the size of asteroids, planets, and black holes in our universe. Scroll to the right and you will see how small your problems are; if not, it’s just fun to think about space and how damn huge galaxies are.
Do you think the sun is big? It is tiny compared to Betelgeuse, the actual name of a supergiant star, located about 643 light years from Earth. But Betelgeuse is nothing when you consider the size of the black hole M87, first photographed earlier this year and estimated at 23.6 billion miles. (By comparison, the Earth is somewhere around 7,900 miles in diameter .) Keep scrolling and you’ll find entire galaxies like Andromeda, which weigh 800 billion times the mass of the Sun and may one day collide with the Milky Way .
And if you want to spend some more time, check out the rest of Agarwal’s handy tools on his website, including those that show you how many days are left until your next vacation and what it would be like to go shopping. Bill Gates dime .