The Sky Giants - February 2024
Both can be seen with the naked eye -
One is tall, made of steel, and towers 120 feet into the sky.
The other giant is the Orion constellation. From it's head (the multi-star known as Meissa) to it's bottom left foot (the Supergiant star known as Saiph), is a mere 497 light years apart, or roughly 15,426,454,079,315,755,581 (quintillion) more feet than the tower is tall. Orion's left shoulder, the star known as Betelgeuse, measures more than 700 million miles across and if it were set where our own Sun is, it would engulf every planet up to and including Jupiter. Well, as they say - it's all relative, right?
Taken from a set of railroad tracks in Crete, Illinois - the exact location can be seen here:
The Sky Giants - February 2024
Both can be seen with the naked eye -
One is tall, made of steel, and towers 120 feet into the sky.
The other giant is the Orion constellation. From it's head (the multi-star known as Meissa) to it's bottom left foot (the Supergiant star known as Saiph), is a mere 497 light years apart, or roughly 15,426,454,079,315,755,581 (quintillion) more feet than the tower is tall. Orion's left shoulder, the star known as Betelgeuse, measures more than 700 million miles across and if it were set where our own Sun is, it would engulf every planet up to and including Jupiter. Well, as they say - it's all relative, right?
Taken from a set of railroad tracks in Crete, Illinois - the exact location can be seen here: