Photopic Sky Survey. Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" Music by VNV Nation. How Far Away is the Sun? Another Visualization. - Brad BlogSpeed. Alright, this one’s a doozy. After the reasonable popularity of last week’s scale picture that illustrated the distance between the Earth and the Moon, I just had to take things to the next logical level. Today I’ve reduced the scale, and increased the image size dramatically, to represent one astronomical unit (AU), or the distance between the earth and the Sun.* So allow me to just say ahead of time that I apologize if this post breaks anyone’s computer. I’m not a web-savvy dude (note the use of Posterous instead of WordPress) so I’m not sure what nightmares could potentially be created by posting a 500 x 284,049 pixel image on the web.
I tried to split the image into parts, compress it to crap, and repeat the areas of blank space where I could to mitigate any potential problems. I also realize that this down scrolling visual device, one that worked so well on the moon example, strains its usefulness here. But try not to, at least for a while. If you enjoyed this post, please consider: The beginning of infinity. Powers of Ten. Based on the film by Charles and Ray Eames. An Eames Office Website.
Richard Feynman on beauty. History Channel - The Universe - Light Speed. The Scale of the Universe. Systemesolaire2.jpg (JPEG-bild, 30000x1000 pixlar)