7 MIND-BLOWING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE TO PUT YOUR EGO IN CHECK

 

Tyson once said, "If your ego starts," I'm important, I'm great, I'm special ",
you feel a little disappointed when you look around what we have discovered about the 
universe. "No, you are not big. No you are not. You are small in time and space." From 
time to time, it is important to put things in perspective. Or, as the astrophysicist Neil 
deGrasse Tyson would tell you, leave you breathless: consider for a moment that while the 
Earth has an equatorial diameter of 7,926 miles, the Milky Way is about 
621,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. These seven facts of NASA will leave you speechless and 
your ego will also return to earth.



1. There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth put together. Our 
sun is one of at least 100 billion stars, right in the Milky Way. Scientists have estimated 
that there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each full of stars.

NASA/Tumblr — Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation.

The first planet that was found outside of our solar system was in 1995, and now only

in a very short span of time, thousands of planets have been found in orbit around 

sun-like stars, also known as exoplanets.



2. Can you imagine the speed of light? If you move with the speed of light, it would 

take you 100,000 years to cross a Milky Way.

3. Only 5 percent of the universe has been observed till now, and round about 70 percent of the universe is made of dark energy.

4. If the sun were as tall as a typical front door, Earth would be the size of a nickel.

5. The sun is so much huge that it contains all the mass in our solar system and all other planets and everything contains only 0.2 percent.

6. It has been discovered that the universe is expanding and that at one point in time the universe was all collected in just one point of space, through Edwin Hubble.

7. Voyager 1 is the American spacecraft out, more than 11 billion miles from our sun. It was the first man-made object to leave our solar system. Four are headed out of our solar system as well. 

Voyager 2 is going as well at 39,000 mph, but will take more than 296,000 years to pass, the brightest star in our night sky, known as Sirius.