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How Big Are Things?
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  Terameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper
  Tm = 1012 m
look at the entire room
 
galaxy21
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local stars18
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between15
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E's orbit12
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sun9
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texas6
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hood3
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you0
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salt grain-3
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bacteria-6
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atom-9
1012 m    1 Tm
1013 m    10 Tm
1014 m    100 Tm

Our solar system is in an interstellar cloud blowing by (diagrams in Petapaper).
The Sun itself blows outward. This solar wind pushes back on the interstellar cloud, forming a bubble. This heliosphere bubble leaves a wake in the intersellar cloud.

Neptune's orbit


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heliosphere faucet analogy

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