Basketball and Tennis Ball Used to Visualize the Size of the Moon and Its Distance to the Earth

A man named Alex Worden who has more than 133,000 followers on TikTok shared two videos on the platform to help people visualize the size and the distance of the moon to the Earth using a basketball and a tennis ball.

In the same video, he also compared the size of the U.S. to the moon.

@alexworden_ Romanticizing the moon 🌙 #didyouknow #space #moon #earth #solarsystem #month #funfacts #science #dateideas #information ♬ original sound – Alex Worden

He added another post where he showed viewers the relative size of the sun compared to the Earth and the moon.

These numbers might blow your mind. Take a look.

@alexworden_ Small Earth. Small Sun? #didyouknow #space #solarsystem #earth #sun #scale #funfacts #moon #basketball ♬ original sound – Alex Worden