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Published 9 years ago by drunkenninja with 1 Comments

Riding Light - What its like to travel away from the sun at light speed

In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system.I've taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, but overall I've kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible.

 

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  • drunkenninja
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    Would have been awesome if the video also mentioned the surface temperature the object would experience in space.

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