How Big Is Our Solar System And Will We Ever Be Able To Cross It?

Space is big, really really big! Planets are big, Stars are massive and the distance between them is almost impossible for the human mind to imagine. Have you ever wondered how big our Solar system is? This question might seem very simple to answer and the answer is just one google search away. But have you ever tried to imagine the scale of our solar system? How big can our solar system be? Will humanity ever be able to go outside the solar system? In this video we will take you on a journey to explore our solar system and how big it really is and whether or not we will be able to cross it!

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
1:38 Our solar system distances
6:55 Proxima Centauri

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[NzJohny]

I hate to be a pessimist but I honestly don't believe humans will make it outside our solar system. It would be amazing though. Unlikely

[jmazz]

It would take months traveling to the planets even at the speed of Where do you get that information??? Not so sure about that. Makes me wonder what else is not true in this video.

[I_Ace_U]

I can make this easy to comprehend. The solar system is 9 CVS receipts in length or 9 CRU (CVS Receipt Units)

[nhpx]

the one thing that makes me curious is that one item where we turn off the voyagers and they suddenly send a message back discovering something quite interesting and we end up missing it

[NoEggu]

@1:02 "It would take months to travel from one planet to another, even at the speed of light"

It would take minutes, at the speed of light, to travel from one planet to another planet (not months).

[davidgardner]

The only thing more mind boggling than attaining relativistic speeds is the cost of doing so.

[AlaskanBallistics]

MONTHS at the speed of light? Who the heck researched this video? Light takes 8 minutes to reach the earth from the sun.

[gregbrenner]

Really “it would take months to travel from one planet to another, even at the speed of light”. I could not watch after he made this stupid statement.

[plozar]

we have no way to go somewhere, other than Earth

[WWTormentor]

Actually it would take few minutes to few hours to travel from one planet to the other at speed of light. In fact, it would take about six days to travel from the sun to the edge of the solar system at speed of light.

[iamBlackGambit]

no we wont ever cross the solor system!

[shutup-gcyk]

Repeat after me:
*"You-rah-nus"* (Uranus - Stress the SECOND syllable)
Original Greek pronounciation would be "Oo-rah nohs" - stress in second syllable.

*"Cen-taw-ree"* (Centauri - Stress the SECOND syllable)
Original Latin pronounciation would be "Chen-tau*-ree" - stress in second syllable.
*Tau as in the greek letter.

Thank you.

[tideoftime]

:55 to 1:06 -- ??? Months? The edge of the solar system's main electromagnetic signature (well passed Pluto) is just 16-18 light hours on average; Pluto (as a dwarf planet) is only about 4.6 light hours (on average). How can you say it would take months to reach the planets "even at the speed of light" when for in the inner planetary ring it only takes minutes and for the outer planets only a few hours at most on average? (Even taking into account instances where, say, Neptune was on its furthest out point and therefore past Pluto when the latter is on its inner arc relative to the former, and say the destination planet (Uranus) was in its orbital cycle on the opposite side of the solar system at whatever point, you're still only talking about an average of about 6.85 light hours to cross the solar system at the speed of light. And to get to the "true" far-end of the Oort cloud from the Sun would take approximately 2 to 2.5 years at the speed of light... so "months" is still wrong in that regard, as well.)

That is a seriously major error of citation.

[glennabate]

It is insane how perfect earth is with its gravity weather size elements and a moon the perfect size to compliment it and larger planets to pretect us from asteroid bunbardment. We couldn’t exist unless all these things were in place for billions of years.

[sandydelgado]

It’s hard to fathom the future of travel, a bit more than a century ago humanity finally took a leap into the sky and today we’re sending large rovers to Mars with relative ease.

[lookinforthes]

In the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, they travel many times the speed of light. Which is what you would have to do to explore the galaxy and such, in a realistic way. Light speed within the universe is way too slow to explore within the universe.

[evensbass]

I never travel between the galaxy 🌌 before, that’s why I don’t say anything 🤔🤔 and just watch..

[wottermelon]

Cool video, but it would not take months to go between planets at the speed of light, as the narrator says at 1:10.

[inescapablezzz]

Nice video mate and nice explanation. It’s out of peoples brain to understand what time and distance is. I hope one day we will be able to travel at that speed without gravity.