# Cool website (or Holy Cow Jupiter is Far!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574 "2021-04-22T23:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/1 "2021-04-22T23:18:39Z")
Stumbled across this website today. Lots of fun stuff… and this: [https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace\_solarsystem.html](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html) If the moon were one pixel. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/2 "2021-04-23T03:04:07Z")
This is so cool! I had an astronomy prof in college who’d say things like If the earth were the size of a marble and in his cupped hands, the sun would be a basketball down at the Shamrock Bar. Thanks for posting this! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/3 "2021-04-23T05:31:03Z")
And my scroll wheel would wear out before we got to Proxima Centauri. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/4 "2021-04-23T06:16:17Z")
I suspect Nellie’s prof had a drinking problem. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/5 "2021-04-23T06:28:05Z")
Obligatory HHGTTG quote > _“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”_ Not to mention the efficacy of the Total Perspective Vortex. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/6 "2021-04-23T15:02:25Z")
The New Horizons probe was the fastest man-made object ever launched into space, and it took 9 and a half years to reach Pluto ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/7 "2021-04-23T15:09:35Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > This is so cool! I had an astronomy prof in college who’d say things like If the earth were the size of a marble and in his cupped hands, the sun would be a basketball down at the Shamrock Bar. Thanks for posting this! - [Solar System Model calculator.](https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/8 "2021-04-23T15:37:57Z")
Fun, thanks for that. I remember my astrophysics professor trying to put the scale of space in perspective for us. He basically said it’s really big, and however big we think it is, we’re off by a factor (if not a magnitude) of 10 at the very least. He was a sharp guy, he helped build the Hubble. ---
**Author:** ![blabbermeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@blabbermeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blabbermeister)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/9 "2021-04-23T16:59:10Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > If the moon were one pixel. …and it were white on top of yellow, it would be invisible, I get it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/10 "2021-04-23T18:24:48Z")
Not a single rest stop in sight. Eff that. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/11 "2021-04-23T18:37:28Z")
> **[Earth is a marble in this scale model solar system in the desert](https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/19/9357293/scale-model-of-the-solar-system-nevada-desert-video)** > > The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/12 "2021-04-23T18:39:17Z")
Very nice - thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-website-or-holy-cow-jupiter-is-far/940574/13 "2021-04-23T20:02:05Z")
Related, Nasa has cool interactive websites like this “Our Solar System” explorer: > **[Our Solar System](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/)** > > An overview of our solar system in the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy.