Yeah. I giggled to myself at the end when it kept booming and booming to get to 20 billion.

It's hard to show just how many of a thing a billion is.

Even though this is a pretty good attempt, it's still awe-inspiring at best, and doesn't give you an actual feel for the immensity of the scales involved.

I mean... Crush the sun down to the size of Manhattan? Oh, hey, yeah, my brain's totally equipped to handle that kind of thing.

Stop and think about this for a second. The amount of mass in the solar system that is sol itself is 99.87%

Here are some pie charts I made comparing the masses of the planets to that of the sun.



The chart on the top right is the same as the chart on the bottom left, essentially.

See just how much mass the sun has compared to Earth.