Scale comparison of the planets and the stars

These tiny and not so tiny balls show how enormous are the differences between different astronomical objects.

If Earth is a glass ball...
...then Jupiter is a football...
...and you'd fit into the Sun...
...and Sirius would crush you


An other series:


We have no actual photographs of other stars than our Sun that show surface details, because they're just too far away, so the rest is artwork based on what we do know about them - their color and size.


VV cephei is the largest star known - it's diameter is about 2000 times our sun's
And yet even it is just a tiny dot compared to the Milky Way itself

And an animation of the same objects