How Does Brian Cox on The Mind-Blowing Scale of The Cosmos Work?

Brian Cox’s show on The Mind-Blowing Scale of The Cosmos helps us see how tiny we are compared to huge things in space, like stars and galaxies.

Imagine you have a big bag of jellybeans. That's how many atoms there are in your body. Now imagine that same bag, but instead of jellybeans, it’s full of stars, and that’s just one galaxy, like our Milky Way!

If we think about Earth, it’s like a grain of sand on a beach. The Sun is like a big marble next to it. But when you get to the Moon, it’s more like a tiny ball in your hand, really close! And if you go out to other stars, they’re like lights far away in the night sky.

Now, think of all those stars grouped together, that's a galaxy. Our galaxy has billions of stars, and there are billions of galaxies in the whole universe. It’s like having millions of bags full of jellybeans, each bag being a galaxy!

So when Brian Cox talks about the scale of the cosmos, he helps us see how big space is, using things we know and love, like jellybeans and marbles!