Solar system scaling through animation
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Astronomer James O’Donoghue from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has posted a brief animation on Twitter that starts with the dwarf planet, Ceres and moves through the elements of the solar system object by size, including Earth and then zooms out to take the sun in the animation.
What’s in the video?
The video clip is only 45 seconds long, and it has already been viewed 16 million times.
The sizes of the planets, their tilts and rotations are scaled nicely in this clip. The planets and stars that you can see in the clip are pushed close to each other.
In the animation, the planet Earth is 12,742 kilometres or 7,918 miles wide, whilst Jupiter has a diameter of 139,820 kilometres or 86,880 miles.
The diameter of the Sun is 1.39 million kilometres, that is, the Sun is 10 times bigger than Jupiter and 100 times bigger than Earth.
Isn’t this interesting? What do you think about it? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Watch this video posted by James O’Donoghue on Twitter.
Celestial objects to scale in size, rotation speed and tilt 🪐 pic.twitter.com/KCfjHDABdF
— Dr. James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) April 26, 2022
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