How Big is the Solar System?
The true scale of our cosmic neighborhood. Whoa Click here to SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE! -- http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More below ↓ I took a trip to one of Austin's ...
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[music] I'm standing under one of Austin's famous Moontowers. At the end of the 19th century to recreate moonlight in this growing city. The moon is the brightest thing in the night sky, but most people don't really understand just how far away it is. Derek from Veritasium did an awesome video about this, so you should go check it out. The moon is actually 385,000 km away. That's really far. Distances are a funny thing. You can picture the distance from your house to the corner, or from your hometown to where your grandma lives. But beyond that, the human brain just can't fathom the scale of the solar system . . . just how far apart and tiny everything is! So just how big is the Solar System? Let's make this grapefruit the sun. It's orangey and round lik...
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[music] I'm standing under one of Austin's famous Moontowers. At the end of the 19th century to recreate moonlight in this growing city. The moon is the brightest thing in the night sky, but most people don't really understand just how far away it is. Derek from Veritasium did an awesome video about this, so you should go check it out. The moon is actually 385,000 km away. That's really far. Distances are a funny thing. You can picture the distance from your house to the corner, or from your hometown to where your grandma lives. But beyond that, the human brain just can't fathom the scale of the solar system . . . just how far apart and tiny everything is! So just how big is the Solar System? Let's make this grapefruit the sun. It's orangey and round lik...
