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How big are we here on Earth when compared to other planets, the sun and some of the other stars?


Don't you wanna know?

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM THE WEBSITE ITSELF.
THE WORDS ARE BY TOM ATLEE. I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I START TYPING.

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Comparative Planetary & Stellar Sizes

The Question: How big are we here on Earth when compared to other planets, the sun and some of the other stars?

I just received an email that included the following pictures, circulating anonymously around the Web universe. While I can't vouch for their strict accuracy, they seem good enough to wake up us novices to the amazing sizes of the planets and stars that surround us. I couldn't get a verification response from a cosmologist friend before deadline, but I checked Google and Wikipedia and came up with this:

• Wikipedia has a great planetary
  comparison table and picture which I highly recommend (scroll down to
  "Accepted planets").


• To verify the star-size comparisons with our sun, I googled "Arcturus
  +diameter +sun". Arcturus is variously described on the Web as 16-28
  times as wide as our sun (I'm not sure why the discrepancy), so the picture
  given below is at the upper end of that range. If you want another star-size
  comparison picture (and a lot of other interesting star data), check out this
  page from Indiana University.

If I get more accurate data than these, I'll change this page and note the correction in a future issue of Evolutionary Edge. In the meantime, enjoy the mind-boggling tour below.

-- Tom Atlee

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That was Tom Atlee. Now, the following words are by me. But the pictures are of course copyrighted and belong to http://www.co-intelligence.org/ They get the credit for this wonderful creation. Ok, now for the awaited pictures.

Image name - Jupiter-etc


Image Name: Sun-etc


Image Name: Arcturus-etc


Image Name: Antares-etc
Note: Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away

My Stumble Details:

Website: http://www.co-intelligence.org
Editor: Tom Atlee
Date: July - August 2006
Details: Voices of an Emerging Movement for Conscious Evolution

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