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FACTS THAT WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION YOUR EXISTANCE

CAN THIS BE RIGHT!

By patroba onyariPublished 2 years ago 2 min read
FACTS THAT WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION YOUR EXISTANCE
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

This is Earth

This is where you live and this is where

You live in your neighborhood the sun

The solar system.

Here is the distance between the Earth

and the moon does not look too far does

It thinks again at its furthest point

the earth and the moon are two hundred

and fifty two thousand eighty eight

miles away within that distance you

could fit every planet in our whole

The solar system, but let’s talk about

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter

That's about twice as big as Earth

Saturn is nine times larger.

Saturn's rings are so large

That some of the fragments within them

are as large as mountains but that is

Nothing compared to our Sun

Remember This is Earth and This Is Earth

From the moon this is Earth from Mars

Here's Earth from just behind Saturn's

rings and here's earth from just beyond

Neptune 4 billion miles away but a

A billion is a big number, so let’s put

That in perspective of one million seconds

equals about eleven and a half days

1 billion seconds is equal to over 31

years let's step back a little, here's the

The size of the earth compared to the size of

Our Sun Terrifying Right

And here is that exact same Sun from the

The surface of Mars as Carl Sagan once thought

The total number of stars in the

The universe is larger than all the grains

of sand on all the beaches of the planet

Earth and there are some stars out there

They are much larger than our

Little Wimpy Sun The Biggest Star

know of V Y Canis Majoris is about 2,000

times the diameter of our sun

But none of them compares to the size.

of a galaxy in fact if you shrink the

the size of our solar system down to the

size of a quarter and tranq the Milky

Way galaxy down using the same scale

The diameter of the Milky Way will be

roughly the size of the United States

This is because the Milky Way galaxy is

huge

Its diameter is about 100,000 light-years

wide which when converted to miles is

about 621 quadrillion 371 trillion 192

billion 237 million three hundred thirty

three thousand eight hundred ninety

miles inside of all that is you you live

In this tiny portion of the Milky

Way but even yet our galaxy is a

little round compared to some others

NGC 674 for a spiral galaxy similar to

Our own is twice as wide as the Milky

Route stretching over two hundred thousand

light-years across it is a massive but

Let’s think bigger in this picture alone

taken by the Hubble Telescope there are

thousands of galaxies each

containing millions or billions of stars

with their own planets

Some of the objects seen here may have

formed as many as 11 billion years ago

Three billion years after the Great

by Bang.

This period is considered one of the

The busiest star-forming periods

Keep this in mind that it is a

image of a very small part of

The universe.

So if you ever feel upset about your

Favorite show being cancelled or the fact

That they play Christmas music way too

early just remember this is your home

the earth.

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