Cosmic Distances
A tool to explore the vast scales of our universe, calculating distances, travel times, and generating easy-to-understand explanations with AI.
Explore the Scales of the Universe
Visualizing the vastness of space and time, from the blink of an eye to the age of the universe.
A Journey Through Time
This is a logarithmic scale, meaning the distance between marks represents a multiplication (e.g., 10x), not an equal addition. This allows us to visualize vast ranges from a fraction of a second to billions of years.
Blink of an eye
One Second
One Minute
One Hour
One Day
One Year
Human Lifespan
Recorded History
Homo Sapiens
Age of Dinosaurs
Age of Earth
Age of Universe
A Ladder of Distances
This is a logarithmic scale, meaning the distance between marks represents a multiplication (e.g., 10x), not an equal addition. This allows us to visualize vast ranges from human height to the size of the universe.
Human Height
Football Field
Mount Everest
Mariana Trench
Earth Diameter
Earth to Moon
Earth to Sun
Sun to Neptune
One Light Year
To Proxima Centauri
Milky Way
To Andromeda Galaxy
Observable Universe