Building a Galaxy

 

Our Model 

 

 

Description : 

In the far left at the tip is Sun (due to its immense gravity all other minor heavenly bodies get drawn towards it ). Model represents Mercury and Earth, Moon , Jupiter and to to show the far off region like Kuiper belt Pluto (our favorite Dwarf planet) is shown.

Here is the labeled photo of that .

How it was made ?

 Lets start from the beginning .

Choosing the design.

After going through a lot of designs we decided to go with the Tornado art. The overall shape give a feel of the intricate movement of the large heavenly bodies which we perceive as stationary objects .

The shape and our design , incorporated a flat back so that the piece can be mounted flush against a wall.

 The design were made on 3D-Maya then imported to Pepakura.

 3D Model sliced into pieces using Pepakura and then laid out.

Once the model has been laid out in Pepakura, the file needs to be exported in two separate

formats to translate to illustrator.  Once is for the object layer and the other is for the text.

layer.  This is the exported file for the object layer.

 Here are some pics to show work in progress.

 After Stitching(with .125 and .25 inch white tape ) up everything together .

Then after that a little bit of wiring  

We are done !

How insignificant we are in the Universe .

Comparison with Earth

               

Planets	Times the size of earth ( diameter )
Mercury	0.3 x
Venus	0.9 x
Mars	0.5 x
Jupiter	11 x
Saturn	9 x
Uranus	4 x
Neptune	3 x
Sun	109 x
Milky Way	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 x

Comparison of other stars with our sun

Stars	Size compared to Sun ( diameter )
Sirius	2 x
Pollux	8 x
Arcturus	26 x
VY Canus Majoris	2000 x

I know all these numbers are not enough to truly understand vastness of the universe.

How about this :

The biggest star in universe is so big that to go around in one complete circle while flying in a Commercial plane (that we  use today) It would have taken 1100 years which is just 2 days for on round trip on earth.

Facebook link to the video .

Still don't believe me ?

How about seeing it your self . Everything to the exact scale .

This is a simulation of things and their sizes .Everything to scale

Do you know .. Whats most mind boggling fact is ?

Universe is expanding thus making us more insignificant ( in size) with respect to bigger bodies like Galaxies. 

How insignificant we are in the universe

Researchers at university of Hawaii studied this expansion tried to create the model of it. Video is self explanatory .