The Solar System at true scale. The Sun is 120 px wide, and everything else is measured against it.
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The Sun
A star 1,392,700 km across, drawn here at 120 px. Earth, at this scale, is a 1.1 px speck — a hundred and nine of them would line up across its face.
Diameter
1,392,700 km
Share of mass
99.86 %
Light to Earth
8 m 19 s
01 · The swift one
Mercury
No air to soften the shadows: noon bakes at 430 °C and midnight falls to −180 °C. A 0.42 px grain, closer to the Sun than any other world.
From Sun
0.387 AU · 57.9 M km
Diameter
4,879 km · 0.42 px
Light-time
3 m 13 s
Year
88 days
02 · The veiled one
Venus
Almost Earth’s twin in size — 1.04 px — yet its sky presses down ninety times harder than ours and its surface holds 465 °C, hot enough to melt lead.
From Sun
0.723 AU · 108.2 M km
Diameter
12,104 km · 1.04 px
Light-time
6 m 00 s
Year
225 days
03 · You are here
Earth
Everyone you have ever known lives inside this 1.1 px. Even the Moon is only a 0.3 px speck, orbiting 33 px away.
From Sun
1.000 AU · 149.6 M km
Diameter
12,742 km · 1.10 px
Light-time
8 m 19 s
Year
365.25 days
04 · The rust world
Mars
Half of Earth’s width — 0.58 px — under a sky more than a hundred times thinner than ours. Iron-red dust, ice at both poles.
From Sun
1.524 AU · 227.9 M km
Diameter
6,779 km · 0.58 px
Light-time
12 m 40 s
Year
687 days
05 · The giant
Jupiter
More massive than every other planet combined, and still only 12 px. The Great Red Spot is a storm about as wide as the whole Earth.
From Sun
5.203 AU · 778.5 M km
Diameter
139,820 km · 12.0 px
Light-time
43 m 16 s
Year
11.9 years
06 · The ringed one
Saturn
Its rings span some 24 px, yet are often only tens of metres thick. Saturn is less dense than water: given an ocean big enough, it would float.
From Sun
9.537 AU · 1.43 B km
Diameter
116,460 km · 10.0 px
Light-time
1 h 19 m
Year
29.5 years
07 · The tipped-over one
Uranus
It rolls around the Sun on its side, axis tilted 98°. It receives 1/368th of Earth’s sunlight, and its faint rings stand almost upright.
From Sun
19.19 AU · 2.87 B km
Diameter
50,724 km · 4.4 px
Light-time
2 h 40 m
Year
84 years
08 · The last planet
Neptune
Winds of 2,000 km/h tear across an ice giant so remote that one lap of the Sun takes 165 years. The Sun here is a bright star, yet still hundreds of times brighter than our full Moon.
From Sun
30.07 AU · 4.50 B km
Diameter
49,244 km · 4.2 px
Light-time
4 h 10 m
Year
165 years
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Beyond Neptune
Nothing you could see. The planets end here; the Sun’s reach does not.
Voyager 1 is over four times farther still — roughly 170 AU out, some 2.2 million px down this same line. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, sits 3.46 billion px away: about forty days of nonstop scrolling.
Distances and sizes are true relative values (1 px ≈ 11,600 km). Planet surfaces are illustrative; the Voyager figure is approximate.