[Cutter]

It's a big universe and we're not.

[TheZookie007]

I cannot wait to visit Stockholm and see this:

"The Sweden Solar System (SSS) is the world’s largest model of our planetary system. The Sun is represented by the Avicii Arena in Stockholm, the largest hemi-spherical building in the world, and the planets are lined up in direction north from here.

Distances and sizes are scaled according to 1:20 million, and the inner planets are all in the Stockholm area. The outer planets follow in the same direction with for instance Neptune in Söderhamn and the dwarf planet Pluto in Delsbo, 300 km from the Globe. A number of minor planets and comets also populate SSS, which now extends from the very south to the very north of Sweden. There is a host institution for each model. SSS is a pedagogical instrument and conveys a direct feeling of the enormous distances in space, and how small the planets are compared to the Sun. Art, mythology and science merge in this project, and SSS connects to different places and activities in Sweden.

Each model in Swedish Solar System is owned and maintained by its owners. The System is coordinated by the Swedish Astronomical Society."

[Shadowmuse Blown]

It's a big universe and we're not.

Indeed.  Even our Sun is pretty puny

[TheZookie007]

It's a big universe and we're not.

Indeed.  Even our Sun is pretty puny

As huge as it is, Sol is a yellow dwarf star. Imagine that!

[Shadowmuse Blown]

It's a big universe and we're not.

Indeed.  Even our Sun is pretty puny

Indeed, Arcturus, the biggest star in that last comparison, is pretty puny.

[Cutter]

It's big and black and inky, and we are small and dinky.

Name that tune.

[solvegas]

A view of Saturn from its moon, Titan.  Pretty neat art. 

[solvegas]

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson showing off a couple of his tourist space ships. 

[TheZookie007]

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson showing off a couple of his tourist space ships. 

Nice!

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson showing off a couple of his tourist space ships. 

Actually, the one in the background is VMS Eve, which is an airplane carrier mothership and not a spaceship.  VSS Unity, on the right, is carried by Eve before it’s dropped and fires into space.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Moonrise, as seen from the ISS

[TheZookie007]

Moonrise, as seen from the ISS

Beautiful.

[solvegas]

Nighttime launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis as seen from a high-altitude Shuttle Training Aircraft on July 8, 2011. 

[solvegas]

fisheye lens shot of Space Shuttle launch. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

A different viewpoint on a Space Shuttle launch