Sunday 30 August 2015

An astrophysical comparison of my problem !!!




             I have a problem . How big is it? I don’t know. Maybe big as I am or maybe big as my house or my place or my country. Let me think bigger it is as big as earth . that’s  a 12,756 km diameter sphere. Yes that’s how big is my problem. But how big is earth?

           
          Jupiter has diameter of 1,42,800 km and it means its roughly 1300 times bigger than earth . So 1300 earth can make a Jupiter. And Sun has a diameter of 1392000 km , wow , that means nearly 1300000 earths make up the Sun.



             When I kept on searching about size of sun I came upon a star named Arcturus. How big is it? It has a diameter of 35.7 million km ie 25.7 times larger than sun. And at that point our Jupiter will be of the size of a pixel. Now pixel is a tiny dot in the screen of PCs or mobile phones. So if Jupiter is just a tiny dot in the screen of our mobile , where is earth . it’s not even visible . And again there is another star names Antares, when we compare sun to it , sun is a pixel. That means roughly 1900 times the radius of sun.

             

              And on 3rd September , 2003 Hubble telescope began poiting to an area nearly one tenth the size of moon for 4 months. And this what Hubble telescope saw.






Our galaxy is roughly 950,000,000,000,000,000 km in diameter(1,00,000 light years). The picture Hubble Telescope took has 10,000 galaxies. And each galaxy has its own stars and planets. And i don't know how to even compare that since i don't know how many zeroes are there after the digit to measure.
So where is my problem that was as big as my Earth. I don't know. I think i don't have any problem now or maybe my problem is something else now :P.