{"id":18078,"date":"2015-02-22T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18078"},"modified":"2015-02-22T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:07:06","slug":"how-big-is-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/how-big-is-our-solar-system.html","title":{"rendered":"How big is our solar system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18079\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-A_Place_in_the_Universe.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18079\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-A_Place_in_the_Universe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Solar System\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images such as this can be slightly misleading.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forget about the universe. \u00a0Forget about even our galaxy. \u00a0Just try visualizing how vast our <em>solar system<\/em> is.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This item is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever seen for getting\u00a0a sense of the sheer vastness of space:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/pixelspace\/pixelspace_solarsystem.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/pixelspace\/pixelspace_solarsystem.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Charles Steinman for calling it to my notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Forget about the universe. \u00a0Forget about even our galaxy. \u00a0Just try visualizing how vast our solar system is. \u00a0 This item is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever seen for getting\u00a0a sense of the sheer vastness of space: \u00a0 http:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/pixelspace\/pixelspace_solarsystem.html \u00a0 Thanks to Charles Steinman for calling it to my notice. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How big is our solar system?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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