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The comparative sizes of the sun and the planets

The comparative sizes of the sun and the planets.jpg The Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsThumbnailsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the Sun
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(Drawn approximately to scale)

On this scale the Sun would be 17½ inches in diameter; it is far greater than all the planets put together. Jupiter, in turn, is greater than all the other planets put together.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4), by J. Arthur Thomson
Published in 1922
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