File:1e15m comparison light year month comet 1910a1.png

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English: Comparison of sizes of lengths with order of magnitude 1e15m: light year shell (largest yellow sphere with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius); Comet 1910 A1's orbit (long yellow extreme ellipse to left); light month shell (inner yellow sphere) with Hyakutake's orbit inside. All to scale. No transparency version.
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derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files (see below), by me, 84user, using w:en:POV-Ray, and w:en:IrfanView.

84user's contribution (inside POV-Ray files: adjusting coordinates, changing light source and other parameters) is public domain and source files used are described at User:84user/Size comparison.

Physical information is based on the Wikipedia articles and elsewhere (see POVRay source files) about the respective lengths.

Paul Stansifer's contributions to this image (POV-Ray code) are available under the GPL, v. 2, and other licenses. See User:Paul Stansifer/Size comparison for more details and the other licenses.
Author Paul Stansifer, and User:84user (see "source")


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See also[edit]

Zoomed in to show shorter 1e14m lengths: one light month yellow shell; Hyakutake's orbit; light week shell and smaller.
1e15m object sizes: Cat's Eye Nebula and Barnard 68 compared with one light year and Comet 1910 A1's orbit
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