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mahdi

Junior Member
How Big is Our Planet

Big Planets, Little Planets, Dwarf Planets,
Big Moons, Little Moons!

Earth seems to us like a pretty big place. Well, Jupiter has 317 times more mass than Earth! Saturn is 95 times as massive as Earth. But even with those giants hogging all that mass, the Sun contains 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system!
It's a wonder there's any matter at all left over for us!

The picture below gives a better idea of how the sizes of the Sun and the planets* compare with each other. If Earth were about 2 millimeters across, as it is in this picture, the Sun would be almost 218 millimeters (about 8-1/2 inches) across!


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BintMuhammad

BintMuhammad

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Assalamu alaikum,

This kind of images gives me the goosebumps! SubhanAllaah once the sun gets any closer, we're doomed! May Allaah swt keep us steadfast to our deen and keep us away from the torments of the hellfire AMEEN.

Ramadhaan Mubarak

...and oh! where's pluto? *scratches her head*
 
M

mahdi

Junior Member
HOW BIG IS OUR PLANET

Big Planets, Little Planets, Dwarf Planets,
Big Moons, Little Moons!

Earth seems to us like a pretty big place. Well, Jupiter has 317 times more mass than Earth! Saturn is 95 times as massive as Earth. But even with those giants hogging all that mass, the Sun contains 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system!
It's a wonder there's any matter at all left over for us!

The picture below gives a better idea of how the sizes of the Sun and the planets* compare with each other.
If Earth were about 2 millimeters across, as it is in this picture, the Sun would be almost 218 millimeters (about 8-1/2 inches) across!
planets_iau_big.jpg
“(God) makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until a specified time. That is God, your Lord. The Kingdom is His. Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the smallest speck.” (Quran 35:13)

“Indeed in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are Signs for people with intelligence: those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: [They say] ‘Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire.” (Quran 3:190-191)
"(God is) the One Who created the night,and day, the sun and the moon. Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion."
The sun must not catch up the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion."
 
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