If Milky Way = North America, the DISTANCE from Sun to CLOSEST STAR Proxima Centauri. BREATHTAKING

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rsm_insight_video_If Milky Way equal to North America, distance from Sun to Proxima Centauri_part 3

Revealing the Astounding Scale of the Universe
PART 3: If the Milky Way Galaxy was equal in size to North America,
what would be the distance between the Sun and the next
nearest star, Proxima Centauri (4.25 light-years from Sun)?

Credits of Video Content
(in order of appearance)

Design/Composition:
Robert Stuart Mitchell

"The SDSS 3D Map of the Universe Flythrough" YOUTUBE CREATOR: Berkeley Lab Miguel Aragon of Johns Hopkins University with Mark Subbarao of the Adler Planetarium and Alex Szalay of Johns Hopkins utilizing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7.

"Hubble Galaxies Across Space and Time [Ultra HD]" YOUTUBE CREATOR: Hubble Space Telescope

"Cosmic Eye — Zooming from Quarks to the Universe" YOUTUBE CREATOR: Scientificus. (original landscape-format version of the short movie Cosmic Eye, designed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow).

IMAGE # 1 (Golfer swing at 150 yards): https://www.golflink.com/lifestyle/sc...

IMAGE # 2 (Cremlingen Radio Transmitter in Cremlingen, Germany): Wikimedia Commons, File: Cremlingen transmitter 137 meter mast.JPG.

IMAGE # 3 (The Metropolitan Life North Building):
Source: Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/kentwan...
Author: Kent Wang https://www.flickr.com/photos/kentwang/
Date: 24 January 2009

IMAGE # 4 (The National monument of Jakarta, Indonesia, "Monas") https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor...

IMAGE # 5 (aerial view of Kitsilano Pool in Vancouver, British Columbia), https://www.sbw.ca/fullscreen-page/co...

MUSIC:
John McCarthy
Faces in the Crowd (2011)
(MOVIE SOUNDTRACK)