How Big Is Space

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How big is space. Buy me a coffee. The milky way is a huge city of stars so big that even at the speed of light it would take 100 000 years to travel across it. In 2013 the european space agency s planck space mission released the most accurate and detailed map ever map of the universe s oldest. So if we assume that we are somewhat near the center of the universe a big assumption then our known universe is at least 30 billion light years across.
Multiply that by all the seconds in one year and you get 5 8 trillion miles 9 5 trillion kilometers. Satirist douglas adams wrote in hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy space is big you just won t believe how vastly hugely mind bogglingly big it is so big in fact it s hard to wrap our minds around the sheer enormity of it so we re here to help you put it into perspective. Data are rounded to a maximum of 3 significant figures. It may be a lot bigger than that.
Share on facebook share on linkedin. Soho esa nasa when we leave the solar system we find our star and its planets are just one small part of the milky way galaxy. Light zips along through interstellar space at 186 000 miles 300 000 kilometers per second more than 66 trips across the entire united states in one second. Nobody really knows how big space is.
Okay now that i m done quoting douglas adams let s try an experiment. Use the right arrow key or swipe left to start. The size of space. What is big bang theory.
I don t know where you re from and whether you prefer american football or soccer so let s just say you have a football field or pitch. Made with by neal agarwal. Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known. The size of space.
Big questions demand big answers. The hubble space telescope has been able to image objects as far away as 15 billion light years. How big is space.