Giant Stars

pretty good

good work some one finally has put things in perspective

#1 - avinash - 04/22/2008 - 04:55

Thanks guys!

Thanks to everyone who visited, hope you guys enjoy it!

#2 - Dejan Petrovic - 04/22/2008 - 06:37

Nice work

It would be good if you can animate the back buttons too.

#3 - Snow - 04/22/2008 - 07:23

Great educational animation that's fun. Well done Dejan!

#4 - PAUL MORE - 04/22/2008 - 07:24

Superb!

Brad has a challenge ahead of him. Nice work Dejan. This is so elegant, I've been trying to find something like this for over a year to demonstrate perspective to my 8 year old and I had to go back to a 1998 CD-ROM. This is so concise I think you may have even blown NASA away. Once again, Dejan, Brad, well done.

#5 - WaZ - 04/22/2008 - 08:28

Federal Watch

Wow! This is crazy...I don't know but Antares is giving me the creeps..YIKES! It's massive!

#6 - Federal Watch - 04/22/2008 - 08:59

wow!

this is some work! nice job!
is there any star bigger than antares?
it's a red giant right? it could have exploded by now

#7 - jalex - 04/22/2008 - 11:28

Yes there are!

There are at least two other stars bigger than Antares. Even if Antares explodes it will take many years before the light from the explosion reaches us so we can witness it. So literally by looking at a night sky you look at the past.

#8 - Dejan - 04/22/2008 - 18:01

Wow. That's amazing. Now I realized that the Sun the biggest thing in the universe.

#9 - Gabz - 04/22/2008 - 21:19

Amazing!!!

Wow. That's amazing. Now I realized that the Sun is not the biggest thing in the universe.

#10 - Gabz - 04/22/2008 - 21:20

No god

God doesn't exist.

#11 - Robert Brookes - 04/22/2008 - 21:22

awesome

Thanks for making this wonderful presentation.. it just reminded me how great the creator of the universe is.. :)

#12 - archer - 04/23/2008 - 00:45

Very fine!

#13 - Alison - 04/23/2008 - 13:35

This is the type of material that makes the Internet a great learning tool for our children. Saludos!

#14 - Oscar Pita - 04/23/2008 - 15:32

This is a great presentation. I've seen web pages that give the same perspective, but they have more information.

Even so, it doesn't give much perspective. The size of these red giants in comparison to our sun may seem mind-boggling, but it's nothing compared to the vastness of our galaxy... let alone the entire universe. There's really no analogy I can think of that would accurately illustrate how minuscule our solar system is.

#15 - Froot - 04/23/2008 - 16:21

@Froot

At least we will be obscurly small and hard to find by angry aliens ;-)

#16 - Gund - 04/23/2008 - 16:42

Sweet Jesus. This boggles my mind... Very nice work!!

#17 - Exie - 04/23/2008 - 17:08

lol

Good point, Gund ^^

#18 - Froot - 04/23/2008 - 17:56

good work Dejan!

good work guys!

#19 - Joh Milosdosenovich - 04/23/2008 - 18:31

Jolly good day, I wouldn't want to be the !@#$% here. But, I was wondering why if Jupiter is 1381x the size of the earth, and the sun is 10x the size of the earth, I think there might be something a little bit off in the way you scaled Jupiter and the earth.

#20 - anonymous - 04/23/2008 - 21:16

It says that the sun is 10x the size of Jupiter and 109 times bigger than the Earth.

it also says that with the sun's crazy massive /volume/ you could fit 1.3 million Earths inside it oO

#21 - Froot - 04/23/2008 - 23:00

Sanja

It gives a whole new meaning to "Wish upon a star" :-)

#22 - Sanja - 04/23/2008 - 23:39

plumber

I've never realized how small our sun is compared to other stars.

#23 - recommended job - 04/24/2008 - 05:52

The question or the answer...

...or we are here just because of balance between the stars... ;-)

#24 - bajron_balasevic - 04/24/2008 - 12:16

Woah-just what I needed.

I just finished astronomy in my class, but I needed a model to really understand...This was perfect!

#25 - Ariel - 04/24/2008 - 16:06

cool

this was so cool i loved it

#26 - roxy - 04/24/2008 - 21:58

cool

this was the best vido ever

#27 - roxy - 04/24/2008 - 22:00

thats perfect

Dejan, Brad thats a wonderful perfect pesentations, a big compliment to You.

thanks for this.

#28 - Christian Erb - 04/25/2008 - 03:02

whhhhoooooooo nice work! really nice one!

#29 - simbako - 04/25/2008 - 03:46

We are so small in the Universe

wow i really like this flash presentation ;)

#30 - flooby - 04/25/2008 - 07:03

oO!!!

I knew Jupiter was huge, compared to our humble Blue Planet, and I knew our star was big enough to fit 1.3 million Earths inside (that still boggles my brain!), but to think about how HUGE stars like Antares, Betelgeuse and Sirius are by comparison...and how small they seem from our position here...it's enough to make my brain cells take a vacation, and enough to make me wish I could qualify to be an astronaut.

Sadly, Celestia (a software program) and Hubble space photos will have to suffice... :-(

And...there's always that cool thing called astral projection. ;-)

As for "angry aliens," my guess is that any ETs out there are probably as afraid of us as we are of them. And if they're not afraid, well, one would presume they come in peace, and we might have something to learn from them... ;-)

#31 - Kat - 04/26/2008 - 22:33

I have seen many comparison videos like this on the net, but it is nice to see something simple, elegant, and most of all, not low res.

#32 - Max - 04/27/2008 - 12:39

You've a step to go

List of largest known stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

"The newly crowned largest stars, already known to astronomers as KW Sagitarri, V354 Cephei and KY Cygni, are all in our Milky Way galaxy and within 10,000 light-years of the Sun. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers)."

I've seen another scale presentation that featured these. Big mammajamas.

#33 - The Dude - 04/27/2008 - 17:21

Bigger than this!

There are larger known stars than what is showed here:

MY CEPHEY
W CEPHEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNEV9EW06g

#34 - Erik Strande - 04/28/2008 - 03:27

none

Considering we live in a 3-D world comparing surface area instead of volume is pretty stupid.

#35 - joe schulz - 04/28/2008 - 17:10

DOOMSDAY IS A PERIODIC EVENT

My Lord! With this perspective I can now see and understand what has happened to the earth in the past, and what will again happen upon our planet when Nemesis (or Nibiru if you prefer) the suns' twin --- it's binary partner --- returns to our solar system on its long dreaded next pass. The periodic return of this massive body within our solar system will temporally disrupt the gravitational, and electromagnetic equilibrium between the planets, causing untold human and animal extinctions in the world-wide geological upheaval that befalls the creatures of earth as this body enters and leaves our solar system. This is just as the ancients have told us, in what we have chosen to call, their doomsday myths, etc..

I'm so glad I found your site. Your beautiful work has opened my eyes: the Earth is so small; I can easily see how it could be made to tumble, as in the pole shift theory.

Check out these sites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jHvXsFeBk&feature=related

http://www.planetxvideo.com/

Thanks. I appreciate the work, and the insight in your cool presentation.

Sam1984

#36 - Sam Reese - 04/28/2008 - 18:30

Mmm sexy planets!...well done Brad

#37 - S-rah - 04/30/2008 - 02:06

Very clean, top notch short production!

Bigups guys, you really did a fantastic job with your short film and the flash animation. Hopefully BBC sees this and strike up a deal for their documentaries.

I also run a pretty cool site supporting underground electronic music; Jump in the forum and say hello sometime!

http://www.krankydigital.com

noobdles out!

#38 - noodle man - 04/30/2008 - 08:45

Upload support

It would be nice to be able to upload images as I have a really nice 1.5mb gif that contains more details including larger known stars.

#39 - Mario - 05/09/2008 - 12:24

Espectacular, gracias.

#40 - Alfonso Mendoza - 05/09/2008 - 23:14

Great

That's an ascending perspective...have you ever thought there must be a descending one?

#41 - Noxious - 05/10/2008 - 22:55

Very professional!

Very professional and well done! I love the graphics and how it's presented! If you really want to blow people away you should include VY Canis Majoris. :-o

#42 - Eric - 05/11/2008 - 16:21

Finally

Thanks to the makers of this page... This has so far been the only resource I can find to help children appreciate the scale of the solar system. Bravo. :-D

#43 - Marie - 05/14/2008 - 12:59

Znakomita prezentacja

Super presentation.Talk for us what our planet is not talking about even the man.We're so short. Great side
Greetings from Poland

#44 - blusior - 05/16/2008 - 04:58

Great Work

I never knew that the Sun is so small before all the giants in our Galaxy. Thanks for all the efforts u have done to make people understand things easily.

Great Work.

PRASAD

#45 - Prasad Damodaran - 07/01/2008 - 00:29

Great Sound Effects

Loved that low tone sound for those biggest stars XD.

#46 - Xiost - 09/15/2008 - 21:43

love the ending

awsm job guys....just love the ending... "V r explorers!!!"... :-)