01 / SCALE
Numbers that
break intuition.
Our everyday sense of distance collapses when we leave Earth. Light itself needs years, centuries, and billions of years to cross the cosmos.
1.3 sLight to reach Earth from the Moon8.3 minLight from the Sun to Earth4.24 yrLight from the nearest star system13.8 BApproximate age of the universe
EARTH0
SOLAR SYSTEMhours → days
NEAREST STARS4+ years
MILKY WAY100,000 years
OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE~93 billion light-years