Our Majestic Universe - I

Our Universe is 13.7 billion years old and it is expanding with tremendous rate since then. In simple, we can consider the Universe as a giant balloon filled very very very lightly with thermo-col grain.

Here the Thermo-col beads are nothing but the objects or bodies of "Observable Universe" like stars, galaxies, nebulae, planets, black holes etc. All bodies of an observable Universe, including us, are made up of "Matter". Ever wondered how many stars are in our own galaxy "The Milkyway"? Even ever gave a thought to the number of stars are there in our super duper massive Universe? The estimates say that our own Milkyway, which is considered as a normal-sized galaxy, could have 200 billion stars or more. 

What!!! Is that true or a typo in a figure "200 billion"??? No, there isn't any. Our Milkyway is a home of more than two hundred billion stars. Wowww!!!

So Milkyway is the only galaxy in the Universe? Question not to be asked. There are approximately 100-200 billion galaxies in the Universe.

Wait, what!!! Then how many stars are there in the Universe? Any guesses? Well, any guess might be false as the count of stars is incredibly higher. It is "1" followed by 24 "zeroes". Yes, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars are out there in the Universe. All there are made up of a Matter.

The even more astonishing and interesting fact is that there is only 4.9% of the Matter (from which the entire observable Universe made, including 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars) in the Universe. The rest of 95.1% Universe is made up of what is called "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" which holds 26.8% and 68.3% part of the Universe respectively. 

Remember, matter and the energy are the two sides of the same coin. We will fall into the discussion about matter and energy in later posts.

So everything in the Universe is on such a large and immense scale that our normal intellect seems to be not working.

Let's end the post here with the famous quote of Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.

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