This scale comparison shows "the true place" of Earth and our Sun among the various giants of the universe. It is simultaneously sobering and mind-boggling experience.
First series of images opens with the Death Star compared to Mimas, one of Saturn's moons. Note the similarities between the two :)
Earth is small enough to be swallowed by an average sunspot:
(picture credt)
Second series of images (from this site) shows the similar progression, now in 3-D:
"The Universe is a big place populated by stars and thoroughly confused humans."
-- Avi Abrams
"We simply do not understand our place in the universe
and have not the courage to admit it"
-- Barry Lopez (American writer, b.1945)
"Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together."
-- Alan Watts
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.
But the combination is locked up in the safe."
-- Peter De Vries
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
-- C.S. Lewis
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."
-- Victor Hugo
"The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-- Eden Phillpotts
(source Ochevidec)
Source of article: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/01/stars-planets-scale-comparison.html
