23 Pictures That Will Make You Realise How Insignificant You Are

The world is a pretty big place, but when you compare it to the rest of the universe you realise just how insignificant you are. Here are 23 pictures that could trigger an existential crisis…

1. Earth is the third planet in from the left. Thats how small we are.

Solar System rendered to scale by Roberto Ziche.

2. Here another solar map showing us our position in space:

via Foxnews.com

3. And this is earth from the moon:

via Nasa

4. This is earth as seen from mars:

You can see it.. just about.

via Nasa

5. And how we look from Neptune, just 4 billion miles away.

via Wikipedia

6. And this is our tiny planet compared to the sun:

via astronomycentral.co.uk

7. And her is the Sun as viewed from Mars:

via Nasa

8. But from earth this is all you ever see at night when you look up in the sky:

via Twitter

9. The size of a black hole compared to the earths orbit. Scary stuff.

via mcdonaldobservatory.org

10. What an eclipse looks like from space:

via Nasa

11. And what earth would look like if we had rings like saturn.

via io9.com

12. Lets think a little bigger. Even our galaxy is tiny compared to IC 1011 which is 350 million light years from earth.

via Twitter

13. If you thought our sun made earth look insignificant then just take a look at what VY Canis Majoris does to the sun:

via Wikipedia

14. Fun Fact: There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand here on earth.

via science.nationalgeographic.com

15. This is comet 67p. We just landed a probe on this comet, and here is how big it is compared to Los Angeles:

via mentalfloss.com

16. This is just one image captured by the Hubble telescope. In this picture there are thousands of galaxies that each contain millions of stars and planets.