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A helpful way to grasp the immense sizes involved is to relate them to familiar objects. For example, a demonstration by science communicator Mark Rober scaled the Sun as a football and Earth as a tiny pinhead located 12 meters away. This makes the vastness of space more comprehendible.
Extending this scale further, Polaris—a star over 50 times larger than our Sun—is located roughly 433 light-years away. To put that into perspective:
In scaled terms:
If Earth is a human hair's width, the Sun is a pencil's diameter, positioned about 56 centimeters away.
Polaris would be a football placed approximately 9,500 miles away—roughly in Australia.