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80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles to the
furthermost galaxy (80 octillion miles)
600,000,000,000,000,000 miles to the edge of our
galaxy (600 quadrillion miles)
100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy (100 billion)
25,000,000,000 miles to the nearest star (25 billion miles)
4,000,000,000 miles to Pluto 4
billion miles)
93,000,000 miles to the sun
To grasp these sizes,
Moon a ping pong ball 10
feet away
Sun a 36 foot balloon at
the Gaslight theater, (about a mile away)
Pluto a ping pong ball in
Cortez, 35 miles away
The nearest star (Alpha
Centauri) is 200,000 miles away, about to the moon.
The edge of our Milky Way
galaxy is at the orbit of Jupiter.
The furthermost galaxy is
625 trillion miles away.
Earth a grain
of sugar.
Moon a dust speck ¼ inch
away
Pluto a dust speck two
blocks away.
The nearest star (Alpha
Centauri) is 500 miles away, about to El Paso, Texas.
The edge of our Milky Way
galaxy is 2,500,000 miles away, ten times as far as the moon)
The furthermost galaxy is
still 1,500,000,000,000 miles away.