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Aim: To explore the scale of objects in the universe, from a human to the observable universe.

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Scale Comparisons

Comparison Factor Context
Human → Earth × 7 million Earth's diameter is about 7 million times a person's height
Earth → Sun × 109 You could line up 109 Earths across the Sun's diameter
Sun → Solar System × 6,400 The Solar System (to Neptune) is ~6,400 times the Sun's diameter
Solar System → Milky Way × 6.3 billion Our galaxy contains 100–400 billion stars spread across 100,000 light-years
Milky Way → Observable Universe × 930,000 The observable universe is 93 billion light-years across and contains ~2 trillion galaxies