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Planets and Stars to Scale

The video shows how each planet scales in size relative to each other.

The exploration begins at the smallest planet Mercury which has diameter of just 4880 km, then comes Mars (6794 km), Venus, Earth (12756 km), Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter (142984 km), Sun, Sirius, Pollux, Arcturus (4177500 km), Rigel, Beteigeuze, Antares (1108430000 km), My Cephei, VV Cephei (288194 times bigger than Earth).

Pretty impressive!

This science video contains:
planets, stars, mercury, mars, venus, earth, neptune, saturn, jupiter, sun, sirius, pollux, arcturus, rigel, beteigeuze, antares, my cephei, vv cephei