This is an example that visually shows that even our Sun is tiny compared to some other objects in the sky. Here is a video (via digg) that shows how small we (the earth) really are. It vividly shows size comparisons of a few monstrosity objects lerking around in our galaxy. If an imaginary spaceship got anywhere near these huge monsters they would be sucked into them so fast due to tremendous gravitational forces they would be vaporized from the heat probably before they hit.

A size comparison¹ of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system VV Cephei) can be found at Wikipedia. VV Cephei A is 1600-1900 times the size of the Sun and 275,000-575,000 times as luminous.

Distance between Earth and Sun: 149,597,870 km²

Max. diameter of VV Cephei A: 2,645,750,000 km³

If you imagine the Sun as a one millimeter dot, VV Cephei A is nearly two meters in diameter.

Earth imagined as a one millimeter dot makes VV Cephei A 207 meters in diameter!

When you realize that most or at least many of the quazillions of stars in the universe have planets around them it makes earth and us seem minuscule compared to them.