How Big is the Solar System? (Football Field Model)
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- How big is the solar system? We head to Carson-Newman University and create a scale model of the entire solar system starting with a soccer ball sun. If the sun were a soccer ball, how big would the earth be, and how far away? What about the biggest planet, Jupiter, or the furthest planet, Neptune?
Today, we're mapping out the sun and all eight planets on a college campus to visualize their size and distances.
Video Timestamps:
00:00 - How Big is the Solar System?
01:22 - If the sun were a soccer ball...
01:59 - Mercury
02:29 - Venus
02:42 - Earth
03:31 - Mars
04:16 - Jupiter
04:38 - Saturn
04:57 - Uranus
05:16 - Neptune
05:45 - Pluto
06:55 - Visiting the Planets
Credits:
Written and Edited: Jared Belcher
2D Animation: Jared Belcher
Filmed: Tanner Burleson and Andrew Belcher
Original Theme Music: Branded.
Episode Music: "Always" by Utah
Special Thanks: Carson-Newman University
The absolute best part of these models is walking faster than the speed of light.
😂
I did a scale model like this in Minecraft, scaling the Sun to a single block, or 1 meter. The player's walking speed I calculated at over 20 times the speed of light.
Fun fact: The closest star to the sun at this scale would be 4083 miles away.
This is exactly what I wanted to know
That is an amazing fact!
Nope 222 kilometers
@@sahasasahasa Double checking the math from @Super poggies moment in the simplest terms... Proxima Centauri is 268,770 AU from the earth. (Multiple sources.) 1 astronomical unit is the distance from the sun to the earth, which at this scale is 26 yards. 268,770 AU x 26 yards = 6,988,020 yards, which is about 4,000 miles.
Or, if you prefer the metric system, that would be about 6400 km.
@@nobodz001 Wow, that's like (this tiny model of) the Solar system being in Manhattan, while Proxima Centauri is all the way in Berlin
It's amazing that these planets are all so tiny in the middle of the vast space, but what amazes me more is the gravitational pull the Sun has on these far away objects
Incredible
No competition!
They’re following the curve in spacetime caused by the sun and it’s mass. Gravity is awesome
Because the sun contains 99.8% of all mass in the solar system
@@fob3476 indeed, and even that fact is pretty amazing
Mercury: 10 yards away
Venus: 19 yards away
Earth: 26 yards away
Mars: 40 yards away
Jupiter: 134 yards away
Saturn: 247 yards away
Uranus: 497 yards away
Neptune 777 years away
Pluto: 1054 yards away
Chutki
And you not see all. Auméa, makemame, Eris, Sedna (Sedna are in more 20km)
This video has a ridiculously low amount of views. It's absolutely brilliant.
it is rare
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for the work!
Illuminating! Thanks!
Thanks for this!
Great job here! Perfectly explained.
This video is way underrated.
mark rober did it first
@@bekahfaye99 Yes, I saw that first, but I prefer this one. That one also has 10 million views. This one has 5k.
I totally agree 👍
Wow guys, thank you! I hadn’t seen Mark’s video before we published our own (I got the idea from a teacher who used the same concept in a class), but his video is amazing, so that is quiet a compliment. No matter how you discover this concept of showing the solar system at scale, I hope it fills you with lots of wonder an awe.
Wow!!! Thanks for the model.
That's very cool!
Very good and well explained!!
Very cool and interesting illustration. I'm looking at your scaled down version of the solar system out to Pluto at 6:07 while keeping in mind the sun is that soccer ball sitting at the goal line, wondering how in the heck that soccer ball, being as small as it is relative to an object 1054 yards away can keep that object captured in its orbit. It's also hard to imagine that soccer ball being luminous enough to be visible from 6/10 of a mile away.
They are following the curve in spacetime caused by the suns mass. Really cool!
I imagine orbits don't exist as railway with atraction/control by the gravitation force.
drop a stone into a pool: you will see the drops splashing. watch the same scene slower, very very solow maybe 1 second/each 10 years. (00)
if you consider the universe "expands" , considering the cosmic scale, there are two factors: the expansion "very solow from our point of view" and the balance in cosmic energies making it look like orbit. (just I imagine)
Nice video! Thanks. And also for mentioning Pluto🥺
Can’t forget Pluto! I grew up with Pluto as a part of the 9 major planets. To be honest, I agree with the reasoning behind classifying it as a dwarf planet, but we still need to talk about it 😉
New sub from Alaskan Ballistics! This is comprehensible and good. Thank you👍🇺🇸
Edit: I'd bring everything by Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, and Isaac Arthur.
Having just finished the Foundation series a few months ago, I’ll have to agree with you!
Good work.
Just saying its really similar to mark rober's vid but cool
Mark robers vid came out a couple years before this though
But really! I hadn’t heard of Mark before we made this video but once we published this I got this response A LOT 😂 His video is amazing! I like to think both of our videos bring something to the table, though.
@@DigitalAstronaut cool
Wow amazing video
There is an image I really like at the 30 second mark; the planets and moons and the spacecraft that have visited each. Can you tell me where you found this image? Thanks!
It’s a really great poster! I was about to find it again on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Pop-Chart-Lab-Cosmic-Exploration/dp/B077SJWSY4/ref=asc_df_B077SJWSY4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=344022620761&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13303392793916538197&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013373&hvtargid=pla-777265947343&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=72020981434&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=344022620761&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13303392793916538197&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013373&hvtargid=pla-777265947343
cool video thanks :3
one of the best video i ever see in youtube
Awesome video
Thank you!
A mathematician did use an American soccer pitch and put all the 8 planets on it. The Sun would be on the touch line slightly larger than a golf ball and the 4 planets wouldn’t be bigger than the bearings in a ball point pen 5, 10, 15, and 20 yards from it roughly. Then pretty much equally spread the rest out with Neptune being at the other touch line. Jupiter would be roughly a garden pea. Roughly 😳
Crazy that this exists as i was just wondering about the actual scale of the solar system and what it would look like on a football field. It is most mindblowing that pluto (and many things far beyond pluto) orbit the soccer ball many thousands of feet away!
When I started to work on this, I had hoped to fit the entire solar system within an American football field, but then the planets get so small you’d need a microscope to see them 😅 Truly mind blowing!
great video, showing it to my 3rd graders today
Wow! What a compliment!
I did a fun scale thing like this with the video game Halo.
If Halo were the size of a cheerio, its effective blast radius would reach Saturn.
It’s even crazier to think about the other planets beyond Pluto, like Eris or Sedna. They’re WAAAAAAAAYY out there! 🤯
What about the other dwarf planets like haumea or eris
You’re right, those would have been really cool to include! Maybe future video?
So I made my own scale set using household objects, and calculated how far away everything would be. Long story short, if the sun the size of a typical flat ceiling light fixtur, (13.5 inches in my case) earth, (which would be the size of a small bead), would only be 122 feet from the sun, but Pluto would be almost a mile away. And to think that most of that is just empty space… that just blows my mind 🤯
On the scale, I’d like to know how far the nearest star would be? I’m guessing 100 miles away?
4083 miles away
3910 miles away
I’m I. An astronomy class and I have an assignment like this due tonight .... I don’t understand anything at all 😭how are you converting the sizes?
Proportional mathematics. if 10 yards at scale equals mercury's distance to the sun and in real life it's 36,000,000 miles, everything else is based on that scale. Earth is 93,000,000 miles from the sun so 93,000,000miles/36,000,000miles= 2.58 Mercury is 10 yards at scale so Earth is 2.58x10 yards from the sun= 25.8 yards.
Joel is exactly right! I based the whole thing on converting the sun’s size to a soccer ball and then that created the size ratio for everything else. I made a spreadsheet with that ratio and it helped me to calculate the size of the planets and distances at that scale.
So, How big is the Solar System?
Does it end at the last little planet you mentioned? Or at the furthest side of the Ort Cloud? OR, maybe The Solar System is so big it reaches to the Heliosphere.
This is the debate! Different scientists define that boundary differently. For our model here, we didn’t consider the ort cloud of the heliosphere, but that would be an interesting part 2 for sure.
How about the dwarf planets?
Oh man, that would be really cool to show! May make another video about that one day…
i think you should work with Carsten Univ to install permanent models around the campus. so students and visitors can study and enlighten themselves with our solar system, just like you show us.
That's a great idea!
Bro wanna see distance between earth and Sirius Betelgeuse Uy scuti ,and Antarus And Huge Stars by this model .....Pls Pls ❤
Haha I would love to revisit this model with some stars, but I’m going to need to find an airline sponsor to make that happen 😅 The universe is BIG, even “nearby” stars
@@DigitalAstronaut Hope u will get sponsored
Bro I have an idea, can u compare size of Stars like this using sun as Sesame seed, maybe Sirius as pushpin , Betelgeuse as ball like that ..
That’s a pretty great idea! You might have come up with a future video 🤔
So we did the math... If the sun is the size of a sesame seed, the closest star would be 20 MILES away! And at that scale, Proxima Centauri would be about the size of a dust mite. Space is really, really big.
@@DigitalAstronaut if sun is a football ⚽ how big will be Rigel , Betelgeuse and Stephenson? Iam very curious for this
I think there distance will be more than that of diameter of earth specially of Stephenson🤣
@@whysoserious69940 So if the sun is a football, Betelgeuse would be 210 meters in diameter. Not only would it not fit on a football field, it would be twice the distance of the moon, nearly 1,000,000 km away!
If the sun is a football, Stephenson would be about the diameter of the One World Trade Center building in NYC! As for distance, it's difficult to comprehend. At that scale, it would be 28,000,000 km away, which is like 20 of our REAL suns in a row. It would take light 1.5 minutes to travel from our football sun to Stephenson.
Thanks for the questions!
@@DigitalAstronaut Wow 😳... It's so cool and Amazing that space is so huge beyond imagination... So crazy that even comparing stars with small size is difficult and there distance not fitting inside this big earth...Thanks man for your response🥰
How far you get to pluto
are these distances perihelion or aphelion?
Great question! For simplicity, these are just the average distances from the sun.
@@DigitalAstronaut thanks makes sense
What college campus are you using ?
We used Carson-Newman University in Tennessee, USA
At this scale, where would the closest galaxy be? What about Andromeda?
Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Before I give my answer, I’ll say it is WILDLY different than what our friend deaddropsd1972 got here, so take my quick calculation with a grain of salt. I’ve shown my work here so someone can figure out where I’ve gone wrong, if that has happened.
The closest spiral galaxy is Andromeda, but the closest galaxy of any kind is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy at about 25,000 light years away, so let’s use that one. If we convert that distance from light years to astronomical units (the distance between earth and the sun), that’s 1,581,000,000 AU away. In our scale model here, 1 AU = 26 yards, so if we convert the AU distance to yards, it’s 40,945,690,481 yards away from the soccer ball sun. Converting that to miles (divide it by 1,760), that means the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is 23,264,596 miles away from the soccer ball. That’s kind of an unfathomable distance even at scale- it would be like 27 suns lined up EVEN at this scale!
As individuals, we can never get to the smaller things even though they’re not far away. Just impossible to get to.
I thought you might scale things so that Neptune's orbit is 100 (or 120 yards) from the Sun, with everything else scaled accordingly.
absolutely yoinked rober's vid
TY
Great video
Awesome God
Risking criticism of a "nice effort", had hoped for a scale that fit on the field and shows the boundaries Voyager is passing through. A two scale system (planet sizes; orbit sizes) could meaningfully show a size relation with the sun (much bigger than a soccer ball) and another with the inner orbits tiny enough to get Pluto on the field B-) specks of sand; salt; and pinheads are relatively meaningless.
You are absolutely right. There would be a huge advantage to splitting up the two scales! You definitely lose something in combining them like we did here.
@@DigitalAstronaut 7:00 "It's REALLY difficult to visualize the size of the solar system." Indeed ! B-) Your "fun facts" about being able to jam all the planets between earth and our moon was, in fact, fun. The lima bean and the corn kernel were graphic... but I'm still wondering about a football field (which, well large, is reference-able/ relatable, even if that means that planet "sizes" are all various sized "specks") with the sun @ the 50 yard line (to allow for orbits) . . . but that means if only getting to Pluto (1054 yards) at the goal line, the soccer ball would be . . . ? 1/21th its diameter. . . so what's that? a marble ? . . . and I'm still trying to include not just past voyager, but what's the furthest known rock that has an orbit that goes "outside" our solar system? Thanks for helping me warp my mind and trying to get it to wrap around the solar system . . . and universe ! B-)
Why he is wearing specs only outdoor?
I am nearsighted, so often I will take off my glasses indoors. Just my preference, haha
in this scale earth travel with 17cm or 6.8 inches per hour. 0,00017km or 0.00011 mile per hour
Hmm, my math came up with something else. Maybe check my math and see what you think!
Since the radius is 26 yards, the circumference of the orbit will be about 163.36 yards. Divide that by 365 days, you get 16.11 inches per day. Divide that by 24 hours, you get 0.671 inches per hour.
Mercury as a Peppercorn
Venus as a Cherry tomato
Earth as a Cherry tomato
Mars as a Blueberry
Jupiter as a Watermelon
Saturn as a large Grapefruit
Uranus as a Apple
Neptune as a Lime
Pluto as a mustard seed.
Sun is 1,000 Jupiter Watermelons.
or
The thing below our feet, what we walk on and live out our lives on is a few watermelon seeds!
Bummer
what crazy is when that football will burst in 4 billion years it will devour all the inner planets
Why Jupiter and Saturn are the size of 2
quaters
If the Earth is 26 yards away, why was it placed 24 yards away on the football field?
Same issue for Venus.
I actually thought it was bigger than that.
that's exactly what she said.
It is. The Oort cloud is 50,000 astronomical units away from the sun which at this scale would be 1,300km.
Random fact: 60+60/2+60/4+60/8+...=91
DIVIDED by stuff
distance from earth to UY Scuti..?
on this scale it would be just over 8.75 million miles away
This looks like a lot like a video posted by Mark Rober 3 years before.
Very true. Mark and I got the idea from teachers who have been doing this visual with students for decades. It’s a great visual!
me watching in science: *blank*
me rewatching:
So how does a solar eclipse make sense
Moon is 400 times smaller but also 400 times closer so it appears the same size in our sky.
The solar system is actually 1.6 light years in diameter
Thats the Oort cloud
@@gilbertdennis4872 The Oort Cloud is orbiting the sun so its technically part of the solar system
@LM 1607 The Solar system is inside the oort cloud. The farthest point of the solar system is the farfarout 132 aus
No the solar system is 18 trillion km 1 light year is 9 trillion km so the oort cloud is 2 light years making the solar system 2 light years.
New York to Russia?
Which part of Russia bro?
And you forgot Others Dwarf planets😂
As Éris and Sedna.
Do people still use the word 'mile'?
How quaint.
You forgot Ceres
True, sadly! I didn’t include any dwarf planets except Pluto, partly because most people aren’t familiar with them and my hope with this video was not to introduce new planets to most people but to help them better understand planets they’d already heard of. But the other problem is that at my scale I used here, we wouldn’t be able to see these dwarf planets like Ceres- it would be too small, haha
The only thing I understood is that we can’t understand the scale of the universe or solar system.
You are exactly right.
What's a yard? Isn't that a medieval measurement? Get with the program USA metric wins hands down.
Agreed! Since this video was made for a US audience, I had to convert everything to imperial. Not my first choice 😂
the planets is much smaller than the sun but great video
So true! It’s wild because from our vantage point on the ground, the sun doesn’t seem so massive. But to think that all the planets combined are NOTHING compared to the size of the sun is mind blowing.
When you run your head looks weird
Hay that’s not nice
I am sorry
Yes
schizophrenia in a nutshell
And then you wonder why a god would only put life on one itsy bitsy tiny speck and then only reach out to an even more teeny weeny group of people on said speck. Also, why would Earth take longer to build than the rest of the universe? Oh right, because the Earth is very large, and the stars are just little dots in the sky.
UH YOU COPYED A VID THAT I WATCHED 🤨
Guessing you mean Mark Rober’s video! Truth be told, I did steal the idea from someone else, but it wasn’t Mark- it was a teacher of a nearby middle school. I actually hadn’t heard of Mark before we made this but I’ve seen it since and his video is AMAZING. Hope you liked this one, too.
Move to metric already :)
I am honestly with you! Much simpler, but I make these videos for an American audience and it’s nice to speak in units they are most familiar with - but who knows, I may switch it in a future video.
i'm fact checking this.... codyslab is much more accurate. you're fact checked Mister!
Russia is big! From NYC to where in Russia?Also approaching Russia from the west or east!
The distance to the nearest star would be about 4,000 miles, so that’s roughly as close as you could possibly get from NYC to the closest parts of Russia in any direction you travel. Going over the arctic seems to be the closest and it gets you about 4,000 miles.
When will the USA get with the rest of the world and go metric...sigh
I wish we would! After thinking about it a few months ago, all my videos going forward will primarily give measurements in metric. I doubt any laws will make that shift but culturally perhaps we can, little by little.
God is indeed, GREAT. All of this, to Him, is a Proclamation, that He made it so.
I'm afraid your god is nothing more than an illusion
@@michaelb2388 Wow, that was the most enlightening thing I think I've ever been told. You must be really smart.
He stretches out the heavens
Allahuakbar
No. Jupiter could not fit all the other planets inside of it X2. It has twice the mass, not twice the volume.