Numbers help understanding distance...

Sometimes refered to as the "blue marble" our home planet "Earth" is spinning in space, and has been for billions of years. Thanks to gravity, we are unaware of our journey through space.  In order to really appreciate the incredible size of the Universe, it is important to get a perspective on the actual size of numbers, which help us better vizualize the scope and vastness of the Universe and earths journey.

1,000,000  One million
1,000,000,000  One Billion or 1000 million
1,000,000,000,000  One Trillion of 1000 Billion
1,000,000,000,000,000  One Quadrillion or 1000 Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Septillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Octillion

This should be far enough to get into number sizes to get a good understanding of the distances as we look further at facts about our universe on this Blog.  Be sure and read the other posts.