Space is Huge

[figo]

So galactic empires owning billions of planets in movies are literally the same as owning one pencil in kindergarten…

[natebaldwin]

CAN WE RETAKE THAT PHOTO I LOOK BAD IN IT

[Kyle-]

How did we even take it way outside of the solar system?

[maythesciencebewithyou]

To clear things up, we are not in that picture. That would just be the size of our solar system inside that cloud.

[pepperedmeats]

There’s so much real estate. So many places we could put a McDonald’s

[boimansk]

TO CLEAR SOME MISCONCEPTION ABOUT THIS VIDEO.

In scale, he said the solar system would be about that small as mentioned in the video which is absolutely correct. However what he failed to mention was that the nebula in the video is not the where the solar system is located, ofcourse that would be impossible to do.

Instead this is a distant nebula called the Carina Nebula. specifically in a region called the Orion Arm (sometimes referred to as the Orion Spur). The Carina Nebula is located about 7, 500 light-years away from Earth in the Carina-Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.

Hope this clears some misconceptions

[geektoys]

Thats not really us. For those who didnt understand

[Kacymusic]

It's crazy how vast the universe really is it's easy to underestimate it

[AIrobut]

"Let say this star right here is ours"* now I'm ok with this video.

[fitnesse]

This is a Photoshop, not an actual photo that contains our solar system. It should be obvious to anyone into astronomy but I feel the guy who made this video should've explained that there's no way we could take a photo of our solar system from this perspective

[VeritechGirl]

We could be in a nebula and not even know it.

[a.m.]

wdym we are in this picture... and then show the furthest thing as voyager 1... where does this picture come from?
this is the carina nebula, and no, our solae system is not in that.

[hardcoremc]

Props to the camera man for this picture 📸 📷

[hankvierling]

I normally love this guy's stuff, but please explain to me how an image of our solar system could have been captured by us from farther away than any spacecraft had traveled. Even gravitational lensing can't explain this. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[notisike]

Props to the cameraman for leaving our Nebula to take this banger 🗣️

[abysmalvoid]

this is so awesome, i actually have that picture as my wallpaper and was able to just look over and point for myself and look xD

[almasbergas]

Respect for the Cameraman, he can warp outside the solar system

[Makobreaker]

My screen bigger it can fit the whole universe inside

[DeatrahBello]

Okay thank you for this it makes it so much easier to understand. I’ve never seen it like this and I’m 61 years old. Take care

[MSDhaliwal]

but how do we even take photos like this?