How BIG Is Our Solar System? | Earth Science
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- New science kid on the block Dominic Burgess uses the scientific football pitch method to try and give us an idea of just how big our solar system really is.
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1) 2 x distance from sun to the limit of its gravitational pull = 4 light years www.universetoday.com/94252/ch...
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The universe is so big that to me it's actually impossible to comprehend. No matter how many universe comparison videos I watch, or no matter how many times I look at the stars and planets through my telescope, I just can't comprehend these things. Anyone agree?
Idk "the universe is way bigger than u think" was enough 4 me 2 understand the size
Lol
yeah its kinda known that the human brain cant comprehend that
if you are talking about the infinite space outside the observable then thats very hard to comprehend but if you are talking about the observable universe then its 46 billion light years or 435196800000000000000000000000 kilometres(4.351968e23 km)
knoccy Choccho that’s about 0.01% of the whole universe probably 😂
This guy included Pluto, I like this guy.
I love him to
Tomorrow Tomorrow I love you Tomorrow
Pluto deserves more respect. 😤
i like him hes cool
same @karmavrgtag
According to that scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is 40,303 kilometres away. There is barely enough room on the circumference of the earth (From the equator) that can fit on this scale. It would literally wrap around the Earth!
A bit over the circumference of the earth (by about 228 km). But yes, it would literally wrap around the earth at that scale.
@@ZeBlackBaron1 😱😱😱
Nearest star is way closer than u think......
Sun
@@anandsuralkar2947 No it’s not the sun it is someone... me *obviously!* No I’m not a star. I’m a asteroid in the middle of intergalactic space... or interplanetary. Probably somewhere.
Noice fact
I'm a tired science teacher... and that's exactly how I pronounce Uranus. That made me laugh.
Matt Parker teach me
Urunus
Matt Parker k
Matt Parker I
Uranus! 😂😂😂😂 It's SO Funny!
Pluto's heart makes it look cuddly
And rocky
And cold
And lifeless
And lonely
U can not cuddle it god can
Pluto: I’m too big
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
But nothing to how many digits are there in very large numbers
Don’t panic
Is that a Mcspotlights refence i see?
Space is fucking small
@@Abrold Watch your language
It's amazing that the sun can still have a gravitational effect at those distances.
What’s even more mind boggling are stars so big they make our own sun look insignificant. Can you imagine the size of a solar system with a star that big???
@@WickedLiquid Like UY Scuti, biggest star discovered.
At the centre of the milkyway, there is a super massive blackhole that keeps everything within it's proximity (including our solar system). Think how big and amazing that is..
@@Predator49821 sagittarius A
@@apersonusingyoutube4973 True
It's amazing the reach of the Sun's gravitational pull.
You know the suns gravity reaches infinitely far right? If other objects gravity didnt pull you in, you could orbit from 10 milky ways away
@@person4579 technically there would be a limit even if the sun was the only object in the universe. eventually, you’d be so far away that the expansion of the space between you and the sun would overpower its gravity.
Which is why in my fiction I have battles take place over distances of light minutes and light seconds rather than having everyone drive right up next to each other (eyeball range) like most fiction does. Also makes it insanely complex, keeping track of weapons fire and maneuvering over such distances of time and space, which I love.
Reminds me of a problem I have when imagining a spaceship I dreamed up. It's 10km by 3km by 1.5km (roughly). Whenever I imagine it next to something, it's always way, way too small. I have to really stretch my imagination to make it the correct size. It feels like pulling on a rubber band, my mind doesn't want to go that big, and resists. Human minds just seem to have a limit to how big we can perceive things. So, the solar system, being positively gargantuan in size compared to our sense of scale, just has a hard time being comprehended.
I used to dream of spaceships larger than galaxies. And most of the spaceship is just entertainment rooms like pools and stuff. But then it would crash into hundreds or thousands of stars.
After all, we all are simply monkeys who can talk.
@@flatearthnews7904 more like billions
@@flatearthnews7904 So you need spaceships to transit in this huge spaceship?
I am in love with this guy, even when he confused miles with kilometers...
Don't use London buses as a form of measurement... Im Australian. I don't know how long a London bus is... use a kangaroo tail instead 😂
EDIT 2021: Still have not been to London due to Corona … still not sure of the solar system’s size
humorous but very intelligent demand :D
A london bus is about the same length as any bus though to be fair.
We use ED-209 stride distance as a form of measurement. So how many kangaroo tails to equal a London bus?
i've been trying to work how many kt's a london bus is throughout this whole video
BBC is an British company not an Australian
Great video! Really puts things into perspective!
My home town, Melbourne, has a scale model of the solar system arranged along the beaches of Port Phillip Bay. It slightly larger than the one mocked up for the video. I have walked it once. It really does give a sense of just how much nothing there is out there.
Allahu Akbar. God is Great. Creator of heavens and earth, known and unknown.Allahu Akbar. God is Great.
religion preferences should be kept out of educational videos, wether believed in or not.
I live in Melbourne and I didn’t know this!!!!!
The crazy thing is that the distance between the sun and Farfarout, currently known as the most far-out object in the solar system, is about 14,200 times the sun's diameter. I mean, it's crazy how far the sun's magnetic field (or any other cosmic object like black holes, etc.) can reach out. Mind-blowing.
We needed this demonstration when I was in school in the seventies. Those models you portrayed in the beginning of the video were so inaccurate that they should have been outlawed. I recently watched another video that included the closest stars. Absolutely astonishing.
Thanks for the lesson.
I was very fortunate to have a teacher, Mr Moorse, who did just this. It started my fascination with Astronomy. I ended up writing a book about the solar system.
Nobody:
Micheal Jackson: 5:53
Michael sounds depressed :(
😂😂😂
He said hehehehe
@@yaminenterprise7434 damn he says hihi dummy
h e h e
At 2:46 you said 150 million miles when it should be 150 million km
That happens when you mix units. It reminds me the Mars Climate Orbiter crash :)
oomegalinux so true! It's incredible that something like that could even have ever happened?!
Todor said that are you serious dummys
Lol
93 million miles from the sun, more accurately.
Yaaasssss!!! Thanks for mentioning Pluto our, much maligned but greatly loved forgotten family member
Screw that Pluto is my favorite planet...and it will always be a planet to me.
Glad you're in the crew.
Me too
It's my favorite planet too!
Same. Pluto gang unite! 🤜 🤛
The distance between the moon and Earth never portrait how far it is in my opinion. The one triviafact that helps me understand that it's wicked far away is the fact that all planets can fit between the Earth and the moon. (I doublechecked and it only works with the moon being further away than its average distance to Earth, but it still within the max distance. I also excluded Saturns rings and Pluto)
The fact that it still has an effect on our oceans with that distance amazes me. The universe is so crazy
Plus the earths gravitational pull also affects the shape of the moon with that distance
Oort Cloud feels left out.
Emmett Turner Oort cloud is 1 ly long
Oort cloud is *_t h i c c_*
Gee, don't want lots of angry Oort clouds?
@@lmao.3661 Extra thickness is right here on Earth!
Sedna feels left out.
7:36 Pluto you will always be a planet to us
When he said "As always" I was hoping to hear "Thanks for watching" Vsauce!
You could've also gone into the Ort Cloud or even the heliosphere sizes. But well done video! Really appreciate it!
His video was incomplete but still very good
We need to change the name of Uranus to end that joke.
...
...
To urectum.
Erectum....erect..ummmm..
lol nice Futurama reference
uranus is actually pronounced your-in-us
@@radioactivecookies5574 I think everyone knows that, they just think it's funny.
@@chilfghfh1949 I don't think its funny, but ok
2:41
150 million _kilometres,_ not miles (as others have already pointed out).
Fun fact:
At this scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be about 40,000 km away, equal to the circumference around the Earth’s equator, or a little more than 1/10 of the distance to the Moon.
I like it when Mark Roper did it you guys did exactly what he did and put it on your Channel
*remembers Oort Cloud exists*
Don't forget the heliopause as well
No one has ever seen the Oort cloud.
it exits
Very well made video! So fun and interesting
Me to
FAN-TAS-TIC. Thank you so much for this amazing video, it really helps to understand how enormous the Solar System is.
Yku endeavoured to show us this amazing distances, thanks , great job mate
The Sun would be very distinguishable from the other stars from Neptune. It is the brightest object in the sky from every planet. Even from Pluto, you could damage your eyes looking directly at it. During Pluto daylight, the sun is still 300 times brighter than a full moon on Earth.
I have seen several descriptions of the Sun as "just a bright star" when seen from the outer planets, but a point in the sky shining several hundred times brighter than the full Moon is definitely _not_ just a bright star!
@@fromnorway643You’d have plenty of light to read a book on Pluto during the day. It’s decently illuminated.
This reminds me of Corridor’s scale video
Yeah
great video really informative!
great video. thanks for the reminder about prespective!
Sun: I am really big!
UY scuti:hello there
Observable Universe: Hello there
Universe : i can't hear you guys
@@okaberintarou40yearsago29 Multiverse: Did you guys say something?
Earth: I'm smol.
∞: HELLO THERE
So at this scale, Proxima Centauri would be at a distance of about 4000km (roughly at the Syrian border or Newfoundland, Canada).
Lord Thanksalot 3880 km
That’s because a lightyear is not exactly 10 thousand km in size, but 9.4 thousand km.
Therefore the exact distance is around 38.8 thousand km.
great video! so happy you put Eris in it too
These kind of videos help me learn more
Your editing is very good bro👍
Our Solar System is stupidly small compared to the Milky Way Galaxy, and The Milky Way Galaxy is stupidly small compared to the entire Universe😂. We're absolutely nothing in the Universe lol.
nick mcduffie you just reminded me of "Yakko's Universe"
How is that funny?
Never use emojis again.
I can almost feel the sadness behind this comment
@@jsquadthekid6610 Shut up you sad sack of shit!
true but earth is toooo big for us
Ons of them best videos re our Solar System ever!!
Superb...Awesome Iam Watching ur Video First time Its Awesome Explain...Great Pls Continue
Were the gas giants scaled rightfully? They still looked marble sized, as big as Earth's, but it must just be me, seeing how small everything is compared to the Sun. Amazing video~
jupiter is 11 times wider than earth, did it look 11 times a big?
5:53 I’ve been to Devon :D
great video, i wonder how the scientist found them all as they as so tiny!!!
that Pluto 'plop' effect was awesome!
a nice adition to this would have been the position of the voyager satelite in this picture. To me the voyager is still the most mind boggling thing humanity has done so far...
Unintentional Good 21.09 km
(Pluto is only 5.9 km away from the Sun at this scale)
And this is just the solar system. Compared to just our galaxy it's tiny. And stars like VY Canis Majoris which are thousands times larger than our sun.
8:13 Pluto’s orbit is wrong. Right now it’s farther from the sun than Pluto, but sometimes Pluto comes closer to the sun than Neptunes orbit. Pluto’s orbit is also a noticeable ellipse.
this is really good
yey eris. i was hoping it would come up in this video
This guy looks like Ander Herrera older brother
well, based on this video, some hillbillies may believe the Solar System ends in Eris, but this is wrong, the real Solar System limit is the Oort Cloud, at distances ranging from 0.03 to 3.2 light-years, however only inner cloud (called Oort Hill) is considered as the boundary of our Solar System, at about 1 light-year from the Sun, since the outer cloud is vaguely related to Sun´s gravitational influence
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Well the solar system doesn't end with Eris, but nonetheless good video!
He did say that his budget ran out.
What abou planet 9 or planet x
You said earth is 150 million miles from sun. (It's 93 million). I think you meant to say 150 million kilometers.
Error at 2:37
Yeah, I was super confused when we got to Venus and we were already at 100 million "miles" from Sun...
Oh fffffffukkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeee you
Miles is easier all of you are babys
@@j-series8614 not easier.if yes tell me how many meters is one mile..or how many miles per second is the speed of light...u know man everyone uses metric units..
@@anandsuralkar2947 r/wooosh
Amazing and interesting explanation bro. 👌👌👌👍
Wow great explanations
Pluto:hello guys wanna play?
All: NO!
Pluto: :(
This isn't funny
Earth: “I wanna play”
Pluto: “yay”
Actually the technical ending of the solar system is the oort cloud which is miles further away than that
Raj Mahal Absolutely right, but I couldn't travel that far in one day! Thanks for watching! Dom :)
Knew astrophysics degrees would come in useful for me some day
Great video! :D
Raj Mahal, I thought the technical ending of the solar system was the Apocalypse.
Yes and no: The Oort cloud is just a theory most astrophysicists agree upon. So he was right not to include it.
But you could have showed in on the map.
There is only one problem that I see a lot with Dwarf Planets
Pluto is actually slightly bigger than Eris, but Eris is slightly more massive than Pluto.
I wouldn't say the solar system is "massive." "Expansive" seems more appropriate. It has mass, but there's so much emptiness compared to the limits of all the orbits.
My kids want to know if we'll ever get to see Eris (or Eric as my 5y/o daughter called it) up close and impersonal?
What I learned from this video:
Every planet in the solar system is the size of a peppercorn.
Mike Dang (nearly)
Jupiter’s size is 14 cm
Nice job on this
I actually discover this Chanel i love it
Was that a tall glass of, _Tang?_
Juperter has 67 moons
Saturn’s 62 moons
Jupiter: * takes 2 more rocks from asteroid belt *
Earth: “nice”
using the same scale it would be interesting to place one of the super suns there to give us plebs an idea of how massive they are !
Amazing ! Thankyou.
BEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD THE SUN, AND THE EARTH.
What ?
Not enough gravity in that sentense ?
The sun and the earth...annnnd...the blackhole...
Give weight to ur words bro...u will feel gravity
It's similar to the mark rober video.
I watched a video yesterday where a guy scaled down the sun to the size of a golf ball. Then, to demonstrate how far away the next nearest star (proxima centauri) is, he went to just outside a city in Spain at the other side of the Pyrenees. If you drew a straight line from his position in Spain to his home in England on a map, that's the scale distance to proxima centauri if the sun is the size of a golf ball.
Insane
I like space and this video was great!
It's kilometers. Not miles.
kilometres.
where did you learn metre?
I mean at least your windows or mac should correct you before typing or hitting that reply button right?
Rocklee612 you mean no one ever taught you to spell metre and kilometre and litre correctly? your education has been sorely misdirected.
you must be from the flat earth community :D
Todor Alexandrov You are absolutely right, apologies for this. When researching we do our best to fact check but sometimes these things slip through the net. Hope you enjoyed the video otherwise! :)
If the sun and earth were 1.5m apart on a table in Bristol, Alpha Centauri would be in Sunderland. We will likely never get to Sunderland. Shame, meh...
Where is sunderland?
Thx for this your the best
Incredible video!
But wait, there's more! The Oort cloud!
Oort Oort Oort.
Sedna?
planet 9
the goblin
orcus
sedna
haumea
makemake
kuiper belt
heiley comment
and etc
planet 9
the goblin
orcus
sedna
haumea
makemake
kuiper belt
heiley comment
and etc
planet 9
the goblin
orcus
sedna
haumea
makemake
kuiper belt
heiley comment
and etc
Uranus is the most inappropriate planet on the entire universe
I know this is a joke but still its a greek word
On the universe????????😂😂😂😂 In the universe lol
Deadv !
But our universe is infinite and we observe the observable universe
That planet is censored
You did include little Pluto, I love you 😘
Well explain buddy 👌👍❤👊
Pluto as a planet: how bout now?
All: YESSSSSSSSS
Eris:what about me
All:mmmmm kk
Pluto is dwarf planet not a planet pluto:yeah im alright with that
Would you like to make the other dwarf planets Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris planets as well?
Don't mix imperial and metric! Metric ONLY please.
Apologies. We're British. It's hard to let go ⚖
Let make that effort. I'm 60 yrs old and sick & tired of converting. We all think decimal currency now, it took a while, but here we are. Once Britain is consistent we can start on the USA!!! ;)
You didn't actually even use them correctly, you're stating the KM number as miles, the Earth is 93m miles from the sun not 150m miles, it is 150m KM however.
It would rather meta to see the 'British empire' work to... de- imperialise the world.
More Human Than Human whilst technically true imperial is based on the length of barley corns which are not constant and uses random conversion 3 barleycorns in an inch 12 inches in a foot 3 feet in a yard 1760 yards to a mile etc metric is much better it is based on powers of 10 which are much easier to convert and the meter is based on the speed of light and the length of a second which are based on very stable atomic oscillations which are constant over long periods of time. I grew up with imperial in the UK and its not hard to see metric is the better more scientifically rigorous system even if it does take some getting used to
amazing! I have to say, when we talk about distances in space, a lightyear is perhaps also difficult to wrap our heads around, however using km is also ridiculous. There should something in between, considering a tiny human on a tiny planet can walk several km a day, using that to measure distances between planets seems absurd
There's something called A.U. or Astronomical Unit, defined as average distance from Sun to Earth.
This is good learning👍
I still question how do they still get so hot when there so far away from the sun 😏
Because the carbon dioxide and other gasses trap the heat inside of the atmosphere..
have you seen the size of that nuclear reactor?
its many times bigger than your home...
planet.
@@Andre-gn4sj wtf
@@kurtisradford3867 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk; I can't remember it. ps: not sure but it might be something about one of the gas giants.
I appreciate the pro-Pluto comments. I'm glad that I'm not alone in thinking the demotion unwarranted.
Jack Mason I'm with you. What does an astronomical body have to do to be called a planet? Here is Pluto, a body in hydrostatic equalibrium (spherical) with a moon, also in hydrostatic equalibrium. And Pluto still pulls off four more potato-shaped moons. Mercury is only managing hydrostatic equalibrium with no moons and no one is seriously considering demoting it.
But Pluto is not able to clean it's orbit from another bodies due to it's weak gravity. This is the last condition which has to be met to call something a planet. If Pluto was considered a planet than 30+ other bodies in Kuiper belt should be also called planet.
Jupiter hasn't cleaned out its orbit either. The Trojan and Greek asteroids remain stubbornly at 60 degrees in front and behind Jupiter in its orbit. For that matter none of the classical planets have thoroughly cleared their orbits, all of them get smacked by asteroid materials all the time.
If the theorized Planet X pans out it's going to run afoul of IAU's definition of a planet too.
Trojan and Greek asteroids are tidaly locked by the gravity of Jupiter-Sun system to their osculating orbits so Jupiter in that sense cleaned them to these orbits. Your next argument was that there are other small bodies crossing the orbits of standard planets but this is irrelevant because planets are still dominant bodies in the vicinity of their orbits. Pluto and another dwarf planets are certainly not that case. There are numerous known dwarf planets with similar masses to Pluto with orbits that enables them to get close encounters with Pluto. Thats why Pluto is definitely not dominant body in classical Kuiper belt and therefore it should not be called a planet.
Lenard Segnitz - No that what you said is just wrong. MrFredy402 did give explanation to why what you said is wrong. Also Vesta, Juno, Ceres and Pallas used to be Solar System's planets but the original commentator and you have probably not even heard of that before.
Loved your video
Beautiful video 😃 But you forgot my favourite, Haumea
At this scale, where would the actual Solar System boundary be? (the heliosphere)?
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Beefheart Vandercrease fam really I literally pressed read more about 1000000000000000000000000000000000 times
Flat earth society: SEE THE EARTH IS FLAT AND THE..sun? And every other planet..?
UK uses London buses as a form of measurement, australians use kangaroo, we, in france, we use the baguette. 1 baguette=65 cm. Distance from the earth and the sun : about 230 769 230 769 baguettes.
Poor Pluto trying to sent the heart
How has this channel managed to accrue such a horrible community in the comments? Educational videos are usually the one ones I scroll below the line to see what's down here, expecting a half-way intelligent conversation. I usually find that, but not on this channel, which is a shame.
jaw72 So start a semi-intelligent conversation instead of griping and whining about the state of the world. "Be the change you want to see in the world".
This is one. How some TH-cam communities descend into chaos while others can be friendly is an interesting topic.
Discussing the sociology of the TH-cam comment section has to do with the scale of the solar system... how?
And this comment, ladies and gentlemen, is Exhibit A. Here is someone needlessly flaming, trying to create an argument where there needn't be one. Discuss.
I would have thought it's due to people being more comfortable with being argumentative when hiding behind a screen.
wait bbc as in who screwed over top gear hmm unsubscribing only subbed for james
TheAussieMonster 2 and not here for the science? Goodbye then.
heck they cant even get there facts correct just look at the inaccuracy in this video there off with there measurements
TheAussieMonster 2 That only happened because Jeremy physically assaulted someone, I was sad to see him go too but at the same time he needed to face the consequences for his actions.
Physical assaults happen all of the time, counselling and forgiveness was needed, we no longer watch
jeremy assaulted a guy, that then left the bbc and followed jeremy et all to amazon, jeremy getting kicked out of his bbc contract at the same time james and richards were due for renewal, of course it was just coincidental timing...
Great vid
I know a lot of comments are negative, but I really like this guy, he's cool. Also, neat information/comparisons. Thanks