1. Powers of Ten
From the largest to the smallest objects in the
Universe
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2. Powers of Ten
➲ 100 meters =
1 meter
➲ One meter
square

3. Powers of Ten
➲ 101 meters =
10 meters
➲ A day at the
park

4. Powers of Ten
➲ 102 meters =
100 meters
➲ The Music
Concourse

5. Powers of Ten
➲ 103 meters = 1
kilometer
➲ Golden Gate
Park
➲ 1 km the
distance a racing
car can travel in
10 seconds

6. Powers of Ten
➲ 104 meters = 10
kilometers
➲ San Francisco
➲ 10 kms the
distance a
supersonic plane
can travel in 10
seconds.

7. Powers of Ten
➲ 105 meters = 100
kilometers
➲ The San Francisco
Bay area
➲ 100 kms the
distance an
orbiting satellite
covers in 10
seconds.

8. Powers of Ten
➲ 106 meters = 1
megameter
➲ California

9. Powers of Ten
➲ 107 meters = 10
megameter
➲ North and Central
America

10. Powers of Ten
➲ 108 meters = 100
megameter
➲ Earth

11. Powers of Ten
➲ 109 meters = 1
gigameter: Light
requires 3
seconds to cross
this picture.
➲ Earth and Moon

12. Powers of Ten
➲ 1010 meters = 10
gigameters
➲ Orbit of the moon
within the orbit of
Earth during four
days in July

13. Powers of Ten
➲ 1011 meters = 100
gigameters
➲ Orbits of Venus,
Earth, and Mars

14. Powers of Ten
➲ 1012 meters = 1
terameter
➲ Within the orbit of
Jupiter
➲ Close to the limit
of almost all
satellites we have
sent in space.
(with 4 exceptions)

15. Powers of Ten
➲ 1013 meters = 10
terameters: Light
takes ~8 hours to
cross this picture.
➲ The solar system
➲ 4 satellites Pioneers
10 and 11, Voyagers
1 and 2, have passed
beyond the orbit of
Pluto

16. Powers of Ten
➲ 1014 meters = 100
terameters
➲ Our sun and the
orbits of its
planets + A few
rocks

17. Powers of Ten
➲ 1015 meters = 1
petameter
➲ The most distant
space probe,
Voyager 1, was
about 16 light-
hours away from
the Earth as of
2011.

18. Powers of Ten
➲ 1016 meters = 10
petameters
(Approximately 1
light year)
➲ The Oort cloud is
a hypothesized
spherical cloud of
comets

19. Powers of Ten
➲ 1017 meters = 100
petameters (~10
light years)
➲ The nearest stars
Proxima Centauri
and Rigil
➲ It would take us
1,00,000 years to
travel this far.

20. Powers of Ten
➲ 1018 meters = 1
exameter (~100
light years)
➲ There are about
1000 stars within
the 50 light years
cube.

21. Powers of Ten
➲ 1019 meters = 10
exameters (~1000
light years)
➲ The stars of the
Orion arm

22. Powers of Ten
➲ 1020 meters = 100
exameters
(~10,000 light
years)
➲ Our spiral arm

23. Powers of Ten
➲ 1021 meters = 1
zettameter
(~1,00,000 light
years)
➲ The Milky Way
➲ The Sun has
orbited the Milky
Way about 15-18
times.

24. Powers of Ten
➲ 1022 meters = 10
zettameters (~1
million light years)
➲ The Large and
Small Magellanic
Clouds (orbiting
the Milky Way)

25. Powers of Ten
➲ 1023 meters =
100 zettameters
➲ The local
galactic Group

26. Powers of Ten
➲ 1024 meters =
1 yottameter
(~100 million
light years)

27. Powers of Ten
➲ 1025 meters
➲ Superclusters
the largest
structures in
the Universe

28. Powers of Ten
➲ 1026 meters
= 100
yottameter
s (~10
billion light
years)
➲ The Visible
Universe

29. Powers of Ten
➲ 100 meters = 1
meter: Light takes
about 3
nanoseconds to
cross this picture.
➲ One meter square

30. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-1 meters = 10
centimeters
➲ A hand

31. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-2 meters = 1
centimeter
➲ Human skin

32. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-3 meters = 1
millimeter
➲ A pore in the skin

33. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-4 meters = 100
micrometers
➲ Micro-organisms
in a single pore in
human skin
➲ Approx size of one
pollen

34. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-5 meters = 10
micrometers
➲ A lymphocyte
(white blood cell)
➲ One Bacterium

35. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-6 meters = 1
micrometer
➲ The nucleus of a
cell

36. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-7 meters = 100
nanometers
➲ The size of a virus

37. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-8 meters = 10
nanometers
➲ Strands of DNA

38. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-9 meters =
1 nanometer
➲ 1 pentacene
molecule

39. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-10 meters =
100 picometers
(1angstrom Å)
➲ Carbon’s outer
electron shell

40. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-11 meters =
10 picometers
➲ The inner
electron cloud

41. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-12 meters = 1
picometer
➲ Within the
electron cloud

42. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-13 meters = 100
femtometers
➲ The nucleus

43. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-14 meters = 10
femtometers
➲ The nucleus of
carbon

44. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-15 meters = 1
femtometer
➲ Representation of
the surface of a
proton

45. Powers of Ten
➲ 10-16 meters =
100 attometers
➲ Representation of
the three quarks
that make up a
proton ( two 'Up'
and a 'Down'
quark )

46. Thankyou!
@oddtazz