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@wonderofscience @Physicsj wow this is cool, *don't make a Uranus so phat joke... Don't do it*. I mean cool planets all of em... *Bites index finger so hard

@wonderofscience nice video. Wonder what caused Saturn to tilt so much?

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A few years ago, I did an outreach course in Oxford on the Solar System. We made the solar system in the corridor to scale, staring with a 1 cm marble for the Sun ( and grains of pepper, seeds etc for the planets, roughly to scale). The Earth was a grain of salt, 1 m from the Sun. Pluto was 30 m away (it was a long corridor). Students then worked out the nearest star would be somewhere around the Lake District... Some melted brains that day!

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This video / animation exists still longer, to show the sizes of different suns. Perhaps someone knows it and has a link?

@wonderofscience wow, I never thought that the Earth was this close to Venus 🤭 @Physicsj

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Isn't it crazy how fast Jupiter rotates, despite being such a beast of a planet?

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Okay, I admit that I wasn't aware of huge Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn are 😶

@wonderofscience @Physicsj It’s pretty frightening to think that we are just a sun fart away from total oblivion. We’ve been extremely lucky.

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This is really cool! Demonstrating the rotation too adds an extra layer of context - seeing Jupiter spinning compared to Earth really shows off how fast it rotates.