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January 03, 2007

Perspective

Last month, Rob sent a series of images of planets and stars that increased in scale and demonstrated how microscopically small our pale blue dot is, relative to stellar giants such as Betelgeuse and Antares.

Then I ran across this video clip at Google that makes the same point with pretty much the same set of images in an animated form.

PlanetaryScale.jpg

Via A Welsh View.

Posted by joke du jour at January 3, 2007 07:00 PM

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