Scales of Size and Time Astronomy deals with objects on a vast range of size scales and time scales. Most of these size and time scales are way beyond.

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Scales of Size and Time Astronomy deals with objects on a vast range of size scales and time scales. Most of these size and time scales are way beyond our every-day experience. Humans, the Earth, and even the solar system are tiny and unimportant on cosmic scales.

A Campus Scene 16 x 16 m

A City View 1 mile x 1 mile

The Landscape of Pennsylvania 100 miles x 100 miles

The Earth Diameter of the Earth: 12,756 km

Earth and Moon Distance Earth – Moon: 384,000 km

Earth Orbiting Around the Sun Distance Sun – Earth = 150,000,000 km

Earth Orbiting Around the Sun-AU In order to avoid large numbers beyond our imagination, we introduce new units: 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = Distance Sun – Earth = 150 million km

The Solar System Approx. 100 AU

(Almost) Empty Space Around Our Solar System Approx. 10,000 AU

The Solar Neighborhood Approx. 17 light years

The Solar Neighborhood (2) Approx. 17 light years New distance scale: 1 light year (ly) = Distance traveled by light in 1 year = 63,000 AU = km = 10,000,000,000,000 km (= zeros) = 10 trillion km Nearest star to the Sun: Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.2 light years

The Extended Solar Neighborhood Approx. 1,700 light years

The Milky Way Galaxy Diameter of the Milky Way: ~ 75,000 ly

The Local Group of Galaxies Distance to the nearest large galaxies: several million light years

The Universe on Very Large Scales Clusters of galaxies are grouped into superclusters. Superclusters form filaments and walls around voids.

A Campus Scene 16 x 16 m

A Student Asleep 1 x 1 m

The Back of a Hand x m

Skin x m

Skin x m millimeter

Skin x m

A Capillary Vessel x m

A Ruffly Lymphocyte x m micron

Coils of DNA x m

Coils of DNA x m

The Genetic Message x m nanometer

A Sense of Time If we were to compress the time since the Big Bang into one year, and make the time of the Big Bang January 1,  The Earth was formed in mid-September.  The mammals appeared on December 26.  All human prehistory (from the first known stone tools) and history have occurred in the last 1/2 hour of New Year's Eve. Thus, all of human history is but a fleeting instant on the cosmic timescale.