Michelle Thaller

Yeah.

So, I mean, the thing is, this is an interesting thing about science communication.

You say that if the sun were the size of a dot of an eye, and you've got to remember, you can fit a million Earths inside the sun.

This is a huge thing.

So if that's the size of a dot of an eye on text, then the galaxy would be the size of the Earth.

That's when people's eyes get big and people respond to it.

Yes, that's right.

Let's make this clear.

So if the sun were the size of a dot of an eye on a page of text, so you could fit a million Earths inside that dot of an eye.

then the Milky Way galaxy would be bigger than the Earth.

Yeah.

Volume-wise, you could fit over a million Earths inside the sun.

Yeah.

The sun is about 800,000 miles across.

You could fit about 110 Earths across it, the diameter.

There's nobody that can process it.

I mean, one of the really kind of, you know, the thing about sort of demystifying scientists is the idea that our brains somehow work any differently.

And like we can visualize what a light year is, right?

You know, a light year is about six trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.

No, we're human beings.