You know that space in big. But if you ever need to really feel that space is big, then watch this video tour of our solar system, which shows you what it'd be like to travel at light speed.

You begin at the Sun and won't reach Earth until eight minutes in. Just after minute 43, you arrive at Jupiter, and then things get pretty sparse. By the time the video ends at 45 minutes, Saturn is still another 34 minutes away. It's a way to feel wonderfully small and insignificant—and to understand why travelling any further than our solar system is a far-off dream.

Alphonse Swinehart animated the video, which isn't quite the view of Solar Systems that Star Trek gave us, where everything is a hop, skip, and a jump away. Instead, we're faced with the reality NASA deals with every day. Just communicating with probes across these vast distances is a headache. A one-way message to New Horizons already requires more than four hours.

Source: Gizmodo.

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