Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’

Know your Universe

Know your Universe

Sunday, July 19, 2009 9:39

There are an estimated 50 thousand million galaxies in the universe, with the typical galaxy containing 50 thousand million to 100 thousand million stars. It is estimated that there are 1022 stars in total in the universe

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Earth in comparison to other objects in space

Earth in comparison to other objects in space

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 10:41

One way to help visualize the relative sizes in the solar system is to imagine a model in which everything is reduced in size by a factor of a billion. Then the model Earth would be about 1.3 cm in diameter (the size of a grape). The Moon would be about ...

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