12 Wildest Distances In Space That Will Break Your Sense of Scale

We treat the Moon as close and the edge of the universe as unimaginable, but the gulf between them is stranger than either. This is a ladder of twelve real distances, each rung bigger than the last, climbing from our own backyard out to the farthest thing light will ever show us. By the end, your sense of what counts as "far" won't survive the trip intact. Chapters: 00:00 - The Earth and Moon Gap 02:19 - 8 Light Minutes to the Sun 04:36 - The Heliopause 07:21 - The Oort Cloud 10:05 - Proxima Centauri 12:50 - Our Radio Bubble 15:38 - The Galactic Center 18:09 - The Milky Way 20:34 - Andromeda 23:00 - Laniakea 25:46 - The Galaxy GN-z11 28:27 - The Edge of the Observable Universe Sources: 12. The Earth-Moon Gap — https://www.universetoday.com/article... 11. Eight Light-Minutes to the Sun — https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/sp... 10. The Heliopause (Voyager 1) — https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voya... 9. The Oort Cloud — https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system... 8. Proxima Centauri — https://www.universetoday.com/article... 7. Our Radio Bubble — https://earthsky.org/space/earths-rad... 6. 26,000 Light-Years to the Galactic Center — https://www.universetoday.com/article... 5. The Milky Way's Width — https://lco.global/spacebook/galaxies... 4. Andromeda — https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae... 3. Laniakea Supercluster — https://www.space.com/27016-galaxy-su... 2. GN-z11 — https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... 1.The Edge of the Observable Universe — https://www.astronomy.com/science/lim... #Voyager1 #Andromeda