To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM 

Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my RU-vid´s Top 3 ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (from this perspective, my problems look ridiculously pathetic)

"This is it, its the end of the solar system" Pluto: *cries*

On that scale, if you wanted to put a beach ball to represent the nearest star you would still have to leave the earth.

My son wants to be an astronaut and we were discussing, during dinner, the scale of the Sun comparing to Earth. He used the pizza crumbs to do it 😂 after a while of him searching for other objects to represent the other planets, I said… let’s see if someone made a video about it on RU-vid. And WOW, were we impressed. Congratulations for one of the most spectacular videos ever. Loved it. So well done. I just kept thinking the amount of pre and post production that it had ❤

In the Netherlands we have a few of these. We call them Melkwegpad of planetenpad. Some of these walks are 5km long and show the planets in their relative size. Awesome to do with kids!

Man, Ford has really stepped up their commercials.

Still showing this to my Physics students every year, and have been since 2016 when I found it. One of the best things I've ever come across to help them understand the scale and emptiness and size of our solar system. When they get this, then we start talking about our solar system being just a small part of our galaxy, and our galaxy being one of billions or trillions of galaxies, etc. etc. you see both the lightbulb go off and the understanding set in. One of my favorite days in class each year. Cheers.

A HUGE AMOUNT OF RESPECT to the entire team who voluntarily did this amazing solar system scale. As a space-time enthusiast, I could really feel the passion and efforts you guys put into this video.

“Everything that you’ve ever known, all behind your thumb” That concept blew my mind

"Why are you here?" "I don't have a job." - greatest answer ever!🤣😂🤣

This isn't on trending? This is literally one of the most thought out, planned video's which took time and dedication to actually recreate and upload rather than just some shitty editing. Kudos to you all!

The thing that staggers me the most is that since the replica sun and the real sun are the same size from the replica of Earth's orbit, that means that the view of the sun from the perspective of the other replica planet's orbits are accurate as well. For example if you guys made the same replica solar system but on Mars, the real sun over the Martain surface would match the replica sun from replica Mars' orbit.

This is amazing. From all of the astrophysics things I’ve watched, this has blown my mind the most. I can’t believe how small they are and yet somehow how large.

"I don't have a job" *Laughs* *Slowly Falls Into Deppression*

I had no idea of the relative scale of the sun and planets - this video should be compulsory for all schools! These guys need to be thanked by everyone for making it clear that no drawing we've ever seen shows our solar system properly to scale. I'm humbled by their work and by the realisation of how small we really are in our own solar system let alone the universe! Thank you.

I am truly impressed and blown away by the immense effort they have invested in crafting this 7-minute video. Such an underrated channel.

It is absolutely mind-boggling. The sheer scale of the emptiness around our vulnerable planet is humbling.

6:10 "Everything that you have ever known,... all behind your thumb." The way he delivers that line gives me chills. That hardcore perspective on just how small we are.

This is fantastic guys! I enjoyed watching this a couple of times. I am in awe about our universe and it’s size and you all brought this into perspective here on earth for us. Thank you.

This video never gets old. Always teaches us how big our Solar system is. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Hats off to the people involved in creation of this masterpiece ❤

"Everything you've ever known... All behind your thumb." -Jim Lovell Really puts things in perspective.

"I have the world in my pocket somewhere"

This continues to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

When you think about this universe, life, us, our existence and watch this video - it will literally give you goosebumps.

This would be a great permanent installation, with little train tracks for the planets. It would feature in all of the documentaries!

This is the rarest kind of RU-vid video. The kind where you come away thinking that you've just been given a gift.

Most impressive method of conveying the scale. Loved it and it looked like a great adventure to make. I think that it’s time to build on to what you’ve already given us with current technology. More angles on the original project. Maybe superimposing massive stars and zooming out to include Pluto, the Oort Cloud & even Proxima Centauri. Anything is possible now. Big thanks so far!

One of the most memorable days in my education was day 1 of my Geology 101 class at a community college in Texas. The professor attempted to create a similar scaled model of the Solar System with the class. She brought marbles, tennis balls, a basket ball, etc. to represent the planets (we didn’t have a model for the Sun but she told us how big it would be.) We went out a few blocks and I think we only made it to Mars before she told us how much farther we’d need to go if we want to make it to Pluto (which was still a planet back then!) It was the fascination of how small we are and how much there is to know in the Universe that made that day so memorable. That day I also reaffirmed my decision to major in Geophysics, which has become a big part of my career and of my life in general. I wish I remember that professor’s name, but always think of her, of how with a thoughtfully crafted lesson she became so influential in my life! I will be forever grateful to her and to all science teacher who often go unappreciated but who with their passion inspire our curiosity, imagination, and dreams! Thanks to you all! 🙏

Everyone once in a while I come back to this video just to remind myself of the sheer volume of it all. I shall, someday, to return again.

Guy; "and we've reached the edge of the solar system" Pluto: Am I a joke to you?

I’ve watched this for a few years and every time it never ceases to amaze me

Among the hundreds of RU-vid videos I've seen, this one is definitely in the top 3! Well done Wylie and Alex. Thank you.

I'm a senior, and very little impresses me anymore. This impressed the hell out of me. You have given me a piece of knowledge I never had before...and even though I am 7 years late to the party...I just wanted to thank you so very, very much...that was a lovely gift you have given me!

One of the greatest quotes in the history of man: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

I love the music in this so much, it really adds to the space/void-y theme of the video

Around 30 years ago there was a show on either TLC or Discovery (back when they did educational shows) that did just this. I loved it. Just as I love this video. They also did their best to impart to the viewer not just the size and proportion of our solar system but the awesome beauty and how mind blowing this information is. I love honest to goodness science videos that are for the sake of science, education and expanding minds. You guys did a wonderful job. Keep it up if you can. This is a treasure.

Google 'If the moon were only 1 pixel'. It honestly blows my mind about how gigantic our solar system is... I can't even comprehend how small we are in this universe.

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This is such a humbling video. Beautiful. Watching this, I can barely wrap my mind around the scale of our own solar system. To think that our entire galaxy is a speck in the grand scheme of the universe is beautiful, scary, inspiring… I don’t have the words to describe it. Thank you for creating this.

By far the most impressive model of the Solar System + the timelapse of lights is an amazing touch.

Just a fun fact, I calculated that at this scale (in the video), the entire length of the Milky Way Galaxy would be 1.18x10^9km, which is exactly 7.88 Astronomical Units. Which means that in the video, if that was the ACTUAL solar system, in that desert of planet Earth: the Milky Way Galaxy would have a bigger diameter than the distance from the sun to Jupiter (around 5 AU's). But closer than Saturn (around 10 AU's).

I'll never get over the immensity of the Universe.

I've come back to watch it again and still get goosebumps.

Wow! Simply wow to the thought process and the way you guys have presented it in front of us. I feel sorry that it took me 7 years to come across this video. Right from that first statement to the last scene everything fits so well. I hope to wander in space one day!

Welcome to another episode of random RU-vid algorithms. But this one is the best of them all.

What impresses me most is the gravity of the sun. It's still catching Neptune on such an incredible distance.

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us.

This really made me feel how small we are. and how vast the universe is. Thank you!

Its incredible how far the suns gravitation pull goes.

Now how big do your problems seem?

I thought about what to write about this great video, but I couldn't think of anything clever. All I could think of was wow...

Love this, so some local Eagle Scouts did a project similar to this a few years ago on a paved bike path around here. There’s pedestals with models of the planets similar in size as your models at the same distances away on the path. It really makes you realize how far away the outer planets really are. The fact you drew out complete orbits is amazing.

I still watch this like every week

"I have the world in my pocket"

I don't know how I've never seen this video before, but thankfully that changed moments ago. I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, and I've understood the sizes and distances involved for more than half a century...but this somehow made an emotional impact I was NOT expecting. Brought me to tears, in fact. Thank you!

I have done distance scale models of the solar system with my elementary students, but we could NEVER do planet size AND distance as you have! Thanks for a terrific video! Always mind-blowing to go beyond our little blue marble!

It went from a cool experiment to an introspective soul-touching experience. Well done.

What's mind blowing is that even if humanity were to somehow travel at the speed of light, we wouldn't get very far at all in this galaxy. It takes 45 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Jupiter, and five hours for it to reach Pluto. The speed of light may be fast to us, but it's pretty much slower than walking speed to the universe.

Somehow missed this when it came out. Congratulations - a thoroughly excellent science communication video. Thank you!

This made me really emotional. Wasn't expecting that. I didn't want the video to end. Thanks guys. 🌍

10 years later: OH MY GOD GUYS ALIENS DREW THESE CIRCLES BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

With the planets being so far from the sun, this really shows how strong and pervasive is gravity: it keeps the solar system together across such distances.

I am grateful for your efforts. You have created a clear and creative visualization of Time, the Universe, and the Solar System. It is a great gift. I share it with everyone in the hopes that they too, will be as awed as I am by the implications of such beauty as surrounds us. Thank you!

This is one of the most fascinating videos i have ever seen. I wish we could have seen it at night with all planets lit by light. This was awesome though. Thank you so much for this!

can you make a 1:1 model for perspective? thanks

At this scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be 29,266 miles away. Put another way, if the distance between the Sun and the Earth were represented as a single inch, that distance would still be 4.21 miles. The scale of the universe is unimaginable.

7 years and this is still a masterpiece.

It doesn't matter how many times I watch this video, each time it gives me the awes!

Guys I am a Science teacher and this video seriously touched my heart. I love Science and the way you presented the info in this video is beyond words. I am going to show this to my students during our Astronomy class. Thank you guys. You earned my sub.

This is so awesome. It blew my mind to think how much energy the sun emits to heat all the way to here. This literally warms the earth and you can feel that heat in your body on a sunny day.

We've had a travelling exhibition in the UK that did this, it was mind blowing to walk miles to see the solar system. Absolutely fascinating.

If no one else has said it, thank you for taking the time and effort. This is outstanding!!!!

"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan

In Melbourne, Australia they have a scale model of the solar system.....5+km long to walk it....you can buy a coffee on your journey from Jupiter to the rest of the outer planets. :-)

This ultra - short video is V E R Y informative // & // concise // simple . It gets straight to the point . Nice .

2:36 - I have the world in my pocket somewhere... AMAZING! SURREAL! ART! MASTERPIECE!! Videos likes these don't make me regret about the internet!

Man 1:Why did you come? Man 2:"I DONT HAVE A JOB" Legendary!🔥

Atoms are also not to scale. Electrons actually orbit ridiculous distances away from the nucleus compared to their size.

It feels like this place uniquely existed and waited all this time only for this beautiful experiment .

I drive a transport truck. I have some remarkable conversations with complete strangers. This video has come up in a shockingly large number of them. Brilliant work, folks. Thank you. You’re inspiring a generation, and educating several others. People’s preconceived notions of what they need to worry about simply fade away into quiet awe when they see this. It can bring peace to some folks, simply because of the perspective. This video should have been viewed at TIFF, among other places. And it should be (and probably is, in some) viewed in every science classroom in the world.

powerful POWERFUL comment: "everything I've ever known, was behind my thumb"

And then there is Pluto, a dwarf planet so far out, that it hasn't even made half of it’s rotation around the Sun since we found it.

This video is so 2015, and I miss that

Thank you for your tremendous effort in building the To Scale model of our Solar System and sharing it with us... we just have to look up into the sky on a dark, 'moonless' night... I doubt that anyone actually 'recognizes' even a single one of the local planets without reference to star charts for their approximate position... if they were lined up and numbered we still wouldn't see them as we do in astronomy books and pictures... hats off to those early Astronomers who first discovered that we live in a system of interconnected planets that circle around a star... the Creator of the universe can see the solar system that he tailor-made for our needs, as He sees each and every one of us... find myself even more humbled!

The marbled Earth rolling across the cracked dry desert floor was epic.

Knowing the universe has always created a sense of longing for me.

I love this so much. My son is a homeschool student and I was trying to describe the scale of the solar system to him just recently - I will be showing him this video for sure

Absolutely brillant. Thanks, guys, for all your work.

Bet they were glad pluto isnt a planet anymore, saved them a half hour

Yo nice video 8/10 ...BUT... friends we were all waiting to see a shot from the sky to see how your scale looked

Appreciate the amount of work put into this. I will say, I wish you had a drone picture at night high up in the sky looking down at the illuminated solar system you created to get an overview of its scale.

I loved the way the sun set while you filmed this.

That's 7:07 mins well spent on RU-vid. Rare. Thanks for this video. Set the perspective right. Cheers.

RIP: Pluto

Wonderful. I came across this video some years ago but forgot to "like" it. Done it now. A truly transcendental experience to understand the full reality of our existence on this little blue marble. For all of us alive today, this is all we'll ever know since Einsteinian physics precludes interstellar travel. We should take better care of it for this is all we will ever have.

The best youtube film I've seen till date .. thanks a lot for inspiring us guys !! Loads of love and respect from down under ❤

_"Venus is the same size as earth"_ Astronomical OCDs: *TRIGGERED*

Not including Pluto it's like when your parents tell you to not invite your best friend over anymore for Christmas because he's not family...they are right but it's just mean...

This is one of the things I've always wanted to see. Thanks a lot

Never stop being enchanted by this video. RU-vid at is very best. Thank you.