"Now the first thing you will realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful...
On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with the Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 meters away, and Pluto would be two and a half kilometers away (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway.) On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be 16,000 km away." p.34
A Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson.
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