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Let's try:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28mass+grain+sand%2...

Answer: That's equivalent to a single grain of sand in a cube 1 mile on each side.

(You'll have to convert the final result to miles in a second step - it timed out when I tried to make it do it in one step.)

And this is including the mass of all the planets! (But not the sun.)




…and that's just for the Solar system, an incredibly busy region by space standards.




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