What is Space?

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Imagine a big, dark sky with shiny stars and planets where astronauts go on adventures.

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Here on earth we think of space as that big, starry expanse that we see when we look up at night. In reality, just about everything is space. Matter in the universe mostly exists in balls and clouds of gas with the occasional rock orbiting around it, all spread out across mind-bogglingly great distances that we refer to as *Space*.

This website, [If the Moon Were a Pixel](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html), lets you take a trip from the Sun to the edge of our solar system as you cross the massive voids between each planet, all to scale. It will give a new appreciation of just how much *Space* is out there.

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