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Live solar system with real positions · Machine of Eternity · age of the universe
Numbers and facts about the cosmos — from the age of the universe to dark matter and black holes. Click a card for a more detailed explanation. Plus live space news.
Planet
Earth
Diameter: 12,742 km
≈ 0.00915 × Sun
≈ 1.1× the size of Venus
Drag, scroll or use the slider: from a neutron star to the entire observable universe.
Real diameters, rounded. For giant stars, black holes and distant galaxies the values are uncertain (approx.). Black holes: event horizon.
Where to?
Mars · Distance ≈ 54,600,000 km
How fast?
Earth
MarsSwipe or ◀ ▶ – gear by gear to the last one
This machine has been running since the Big Bang. Each gear turns the next one, but six times slower. The first completes a turn in three seconds, the second in twenty, the third in two minutes. It gets slower from gear to gear, all the way to the last: it needs 13.8 billion years for a single turn, as long as the universe has existed. None of us will ever see it move, but it keeps turning anyway. The red mark shows how far.
The eternity machine explained →