Powers of Ten

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• A journey to the extremes in nature

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• 1025 meters
• Near the limit of our knowledge

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• 1024 meters
• Clusters of galaxies

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• 1023 meters
• Within the Virgo cluster

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• 1022 meters
• The Local Group

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• 1021 meters
• The Milky Way

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• 1020 meters
• Our spiral arm

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• 1019 meters
• The stars of the Orion arm

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• 1018 meters
• Stars with 50 light years

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• 1017 meters
• The nearest stars

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• 1016 meters
• The Oort cloud

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• 1015 meters
• Sol

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• 1014 meters
• Our sun and the orbits of its planets

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• 1013 meters
• The solar system

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• 1012 meters
• Within the orbit of Jupiter

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• 1011 meters
• Orbits of Venus, Earth, and Mars

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• 1010 meters
• Orbit of the moon within the orbit of Earth
  during four days in July

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• 109 meters
• Earth and Moon

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• 108 meters
• Earth

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• 107 meters
• North and Central America

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• 106 meters
• California

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• 105 meters
• The San Francisco Bay area

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• 104 meters
• San Francisco

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• 103 meters
• Golden Gate Park

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• 102 meters
• The Music Concourse

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• 101 meters
• A day at the park

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• 100 meters
• One meter square

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• 10-1 meters
• A hand

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• 10-2 meters
• Human skin

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• 10-3 meters
• A pore in the skin

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• 10-4 meters
• Micro-organisms in a single pore in human skin

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• 10-5 meters
• A lymphocyte (white blood cell)

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• 10-6 meters
• The nucleus of a cell

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• 10-7 meters
• Strands of DNA

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• 10-8 meters
• The structure of DNA

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• 10-9 meters
• The molecules of DNA

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• 10-10 meters
• Carbons outer electron shell

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• 10-11 meters
• The inner electron cloud

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• 10-12 meters
• Within the electron cloud

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• 10-13 meters
• The nucleus

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• 10-14 meters
• The nucleus of carbon

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• 10-15 meters
• Representation of the surface of a proton

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• 10-16 meters
• Conceptual representation of the three quarks
  that make up a proton