100 Second Space

Jupiter is 2.5 times heavier than every other planet in the solar system — combined. 🪐

Stack Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune on a scale…
Jupiter still wins. Easily.

But the wildest part isn’t its size.

➡️ Slide 2: 1,300 Earths fit inside it. Its gravity literally controls asteroids, comets, and the orbits of other planets.

➡️ Slide 3: It was 80x too small to become a star. The universe almost gave us a second sun. ☀️

Jupiter stayed a planet — but an extraordinary one.

Swipe through. This one’s worth it. ➡️

💾 Save this for when someone says „space facts are boring.“

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How long would it take to reach known objects outside our solar system? 🚀 At Voyager 1 speed, even our closest cosmic neighbors are almost unimaginably far away.

Proxima Centauri is the nearest star outside our solar system. ⭐ Still, a journey there would take around 75,000 years.

Alpha Centauri is the nearest star system and consists of multiple stars. ✨ It is similarly far away and would also only be reachable after about 77,000 years.

Proxima Centauri b is considered one of the nearest known exoplanets. 🪐 Although it is “close” in cosmic terms, it would take roughly 74,000 years at this speed.

TRAPPIST-1e is especially interesting because it is considered an Earth-like planet. 🌍 But its distance makes one thing clear: even nearby exoplanets remain extremely far away from us.

Gaia BH1 is the nearest known black hole. 🕳️ It is so far away that a journey there would take about 27.5 million years.

Andromeda is our nearest major neighboring galaxy. 🌌 At Voyager 1 speed, the trip there would take around 44 billion years.

In short: In space, “near” means something completely different than it does on Earth.