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"Space … is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind bogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to [Smith’s], but that's just peanuts to space."
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Golly, Gee Whiz Fact.
Source: Dan Heller Photography
The Sun is 370 times
farther from Earth
than Moon.
The fastest something can move is the speed
of light.Light travels 186,000
miles per second.
Source: recoverybridge.org
Distances in terms of the speed of light.
Moon - 1.5 light seconds.Sun- Eight light minutes.Solar System Diameter
– Twelve light hours (eight billion miles).
The new unit is called a “Light
Year.”A light year is the distance light travels in one year.One light year = six trillion miles.
Leaving the Solar System, our next stop will be at the
Alpha Centauri system.
Source: Goddard Spaceflight Center
Source: Wikipedia
Move out 12.5 light years.
Note: Pictures and information that follows comes from http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html
Thirty-three stars are
within 12.5 light years
At 50,000 light years, you see the
Milky Way.
There are about
200,000,000,000 stars in the
Milky Way.
Move out 1,000,000,000 light
years.
Neighboring Super
clusters – 100; 240,000
clusters, 63,000,000
galaxies
Move out 14,000,000,000 light
years (the visible universe).10,000,000
super clusters,
25,000,000,000 clusters, 7.4 trillion galaxies,
30 billion trillion stars.