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English: Relative sizes of the planets in the solar system and several well known stars. Star colours are estimated (based on temperature) and Saturn's rings are shown slightly larger in the picture than to scale.
Blender 3D was used for the models, lighting, and rendering.
The GIMP was used to assemble and label the six renders into a single image.
Wolfram Alpha was used to calculate each star's base colour through Wien's Law. The relative sizes of stars in terms of their representative solar radius were calculated for all stars in each frame. Texture maps for stars were created using images of the Sun from
SOHO. Planetary texture and bump maps (excluding Earth) were from
Celestia Motherlode. Lastly, Earth's texture and bump map were obtained from
Natural Earth III.
Română: Dimensiunile relative ale planetelor din Sistemul Solar și ale mai multor stele mai cunoscute, inclusiv VY Canis Majoris, cea mai masivă stea cunoscută.
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Dansk: Den relative størrelse af
planeterne i
solsystemet og af adskillige velkendte
stjerner. Størrelsesforholdene i hvert nyt diagram vises ved at gentage sidste himmellegeme fra det foregående som det første i ny skala.
Deutsch: Relative Größen der
Planeten im
Sonnensystem sowie der Vergleich zu mehreren gut bekannten
Sternen.
English: Relative sizes of the planets in the solar system and several well known stars.
Español: Tamaños relativos de los planetas de nuestro
Sistema Solar junto a varias estrellas conocidas.
Esperanto: Relativaj grandecoj de pluraj planedoj el la
suna sistemo kaj de pluraj aparte konataj steloj
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The following changes were made to the image to resolve issues with inaccuracies and aesthetics: * More recent maps for Mercury, Mars, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter. * The "table" now cuts close to the centre of the largest object per diagr
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