What's in between?

Pick any two stops and see every object that fits between them by size.

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26 stops fall in this range

QuarkThe smallest known building block of matter.0.00100 fm
ProtonThree quarks bound into one of nature's most stable forms.1.00 fm
AtomThe smallest piece of any chemical element.100 pm
DNAThe instruction book that builds you — and most of every other living thing.2.00 nm
VirusStrands of code wrapped in protein.100 nm
BacteriumSingle-celled life, no nucleus required.2.00 µm
CellThe smallest unit of life.10.0 µm
HumanRoughly the geometric mean of the universe.1.70 m
The Great Pyramid139 metres of limestone we still can't fully explain.139 m
Neutron StarA city-sized star with the mass of a sun.20 km
The MoonEarth's only natural satellite — locked to us forever.3,475 km
EarthOur reference grain of sand.12,742 km
JupiterThe Solar System's largest planet — a failed star, almost.139,820 km
Proxima CentauriThe closest known star to the Sun — and still impossibly far.214,000 km
The SunA self-sustaining fusion engine at the heart of our system.1.39 million km
Sagittarius A*The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy — and its more extreme cousins.24.0 million km
UY ScutiIf it replaced the Sun, it would swallow Jupiter.2.40 billion km
The Solar SystemOne star and everything held in its gravity.15.0 billion km
Phoenix-AAt the heart of the Phoenix Cluster — among the most massive known black holes.150 billion km
TON 618An ultramassive quasar — one of the largest black holes ever measured.195 billion km
Light-YearThe distance a single beam of light covers in one year.1.00 ly
Milky WayA spiral of roughly 200 billion stars — including ours.105,700 ly
AndromedaOur nearest large galactic neighbour — and our future collision partner.211,400 ly
Virgo ClusterOur local galaxy cluster — one of thousands in the universe.15.0 million ly
Laniakea SuperclusterThe supercluster of galaxy clusters our Milky Way lives inside.529 million ly
Observable UniverseThe 93-billion-light-year sphere we can, in principle, see.93.0 billion ly

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