Amazing photos showing our place in the Universe (15 photos)

Have you ever wondered how big the Universe is? The Universe is estimated to be 13.75 billion years old, and the diameter of the observable Universe is 28 billion parsecs (93 billion light years). It is worth recalling that a light year is a unit of length that light travels in one year, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometers.

Our Earth.





And this is our environment – ​​the Solar system.



Here is the distance between the Earth and the Moon to scale. It doesn't seem that far away.





However, all the planets of our solar system can fit between the Earth and the Moon.



Here is the size of the Earth compared to Saturn.



Here's what comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on which a probe was recently landed, looks like compared to Los Angeles.



However, this is nothing compared to the Sun.



And this is a view of our planet from the Moon.



This is us from the surface of Mars.



This is a view of the Earth beyond the rings of Saturn.



Here's the size of the Earth compared to the Sun, which doesn't even fit entirely in the photo.



And this is the Sun from the surface of Mars.



As the famous astronomer Carl Sagan once said, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.



And this is the famous photograph "Pale Blue Dot", where the Earth was photographed from Neptune, from a distance of almost 6 billion kilometers.



The largest star, VY Canis Majoris, is a billion times larger than our Sun.