1. Is a blue whale the biggest thing there is?

2. A blue whale can grow to be 30 metres long & weigh as much as 20 elephants. But it’s tiny in comparison with..
A blue whale can grow to be 30 metres long & weigh as much as 20 elephants, but it’s tiny in comparison with….

3. Mount Everest.
Mount Everest

4. Mount Everest is huge but is tiny in comparison with the size of…..
Mount Everest is huge but in tiny in comparison with the size of…..
Mount Everest is huge but is tiny in comparison with the size of…..

5. But more than one million of our Earths would fit inside…
The Earth, but more than one million of our Earths would fit inside…
The Earth
But more than one million of our Earths would fit inside…

6. Our Sun. Our Sun is a medium sized star and over 50 million of our suns would fit inside the superstar Antares.
Our Sun
But our Sun is only a medium sized star and over 50 million of our suns would fit inside…

7. Antares
The superstar Antares

8. Our galaxy, the Milky Way is made up of billions of stars, including Antares. This is only one galaxy. The Universe is all the galaxies. Could anything be bigger?
Billions of stars, including Antares and our Sun, make up our galaxy, the Milky Way.

9. Milky Way
The Milky Way is only one galaxy. The Universe is all the galaxies. Could anything be bigger?

10. The universe

11. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name
in all the earth! You have set your glory
above the heavens.
 When I consider your heavens,  the work of your fingers,  the moon and the stars,  which you have set in place,
What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man
that you care for him?
Psalm 8 

13. Theodore Roosevelt and I used to play a little game together.
After an evening of talk, we would go out on the lawn and search the skies until we found the faint spot of light-mist beyond the lower left-hand corner of the Great Square of Pegasus.

14. Then one or the other of us would recite:
‘That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda.
It is as large as our Milky Way.
It is one of a hundred million galaxies.
It consists of one hundred million stars, each larger than our sun.’

15. ‘Now I think we are small enough!
Then Roosevelt would grin at me and say
‘Now I think we are small enough!
Let’s go to bed.’
William Beebe

16. This slideshow is based on the book “Is a Blue Whale
The Biggest Thing There Is?”
by Robert E. Wells.
We highly recommend it