Stories
There’s more to the
size of things.
A whale beside a bus. A star smaller than Earth. Stories that make familiar things worth another look.
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The true size of a blue whale
Two buses, fourteen human heights and an orca that suddenly looks small.
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How small can a star get?
Some stars are about the size of a planet. The remains of others could fit across a city.
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The invisible world beneath a bee
A bee beside a pound coin is small. A bee beside a bacterium is enormous.
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Things that are much bigger than they look
An A380 on a football pitch, a jumbo jet beside a container ship and two Eiffel Towers that still fall short.
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Animals you wouldn’t want to stand beside
A shark, crocodile, elephant and giraffe, each beside the same 1.75-metre person.
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