<story><title>If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system</title><url>http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rackforms</author><text>Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spaceengine.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spaceengine.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. Set your speed to 10 light years &lt;i&gt;per second&lt;/i&gt; and watch the Andromeda galaxy just sit there.&lt;p&gt;Also fun to see how slow even the speed of light is. Start at the sun and head for earth. Once you reach Earth marvel at how fast you had been going.&lt;p&gt;Head towards Jupiter and, once again, marvel at how impossibly slow your going compared to even the nearest background stars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sampo</author><text>&amp;gt; the impossibly large scale of our universe&lt;p&gt;The other planets are far away, other solar systems are far away, and the galaxy is huge.&lt;p&gt;But after that, the neighboring galaxies are surprisingly close. If we take 150k light years to be the diameter of Milky Way, and Andromeda is 2500k light years away, the distance between galaxies is less than 20 times the diameter of our galaxy.</text></comment>
<story><title>If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system</title><url>http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rackforms</author><text>Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spaceengine.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spaceengine.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. Set your speed to 10 light years &lt;i&gt;per second&lt;/i&gt; and watch the Andromeda galaxy just sit there.&lt;p&gt;Also fun to see how slow even the speed of light is. Start at the sun and head for earth. Once you reach Earth marvel at how fast you had been going.&lt;p&gt;Head towards Jupiter and, once again, marvel at how impossibly slow your going compared to even the nearest background stars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freaky</author><text>Playing with its zoom function is fun (Page Up&amp;#x2F;Down&amp;#x2F;Home).  You can basically reproduce the Hubble Deep Field with it by bumping up the galaxy magnitude limit (F8) and zooming in until the indicator in the lower right reads around 2&amp;#x27;30&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And of course you can click on a galaxy and fly to it with a press of the g key.  Watching thousands of galaxies zip by like stars in Star Trek is pretty mindboggling (also note that high warp is somewhere around 20 AU&amp;#x2F;sec using the TNG scale...)&lt;p&gt;Example I made a few days ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;xyZe8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;xyZe8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>