The universe, to scale

As I am halfway around the world right now, using the magic of the internet and Science 2.0's 'scheduling' function, here is a fun little graphic of 'the universe'.  It shows various sizes of things in the universe, particularly how our planets measure against the Sun (hint: we're tiny) and how our Sun measures against other stars (hint again: we're tiny).

anyone know the creator?

Now, my main question is, anyone know the original creator of this work?

Alex
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