This Universe belongs to Allah and nobody can pass beyond the boundaries set by Allah . you cannot and you have not passed beyond the first heaven. there are six more layers above it .. and imagine if one star from the earth is 4.3 lights years away then how far that is??? BEC CREW THURSDAY, 04 SEPTEMBER 2014 Share on emailShare on print For the first time, scientists have figured out where our Milky Way galaxy sits in relation to the 100,000 other galaxies within our newly discovered home supercluster, called Laniakea. discovery 4 2014 Our entire universe can be thought of as an enormous network of galaxies that looks sort of like a cosmic web - with dark, empty areas called voids, where there are no galaxies, and areas called superclusters, which contain thousands and thousands of densely packed galaxies. Superclusters are the biggest structures in the universe, but until now, scientists had no idea how to tell where one begins and also where it ends. Now, astronomers from the University of Hawaii in the US have discovered a new supercluster, which also happens to be our home supercluster, because in the outer edges sits our very own Milky Way. The team, led by astronomer Brent Tully, named the supercluster Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian, and produced a map’ showing the Milky Ways position within it, along with 100,000 neighbouring galaxies. The discovery of Laniakea was made possible when Tullys team decided to study the movements and positions of 8,000 galaxies nearby Earth in unprecedented detail. In doing so, they discovered thousands more galaxies, and were able to figure out which ones are being pulled towards and away from us. From this information, they produced a new animated map which shows the incredible network of thousands of galaxies, and their various cosmic flows, within the supercluster Laniakea. And it looks absolutely stunning. Allah SWT said in the Quran So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge. (41:12) And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning. (67:5) What’s meant by lower heavens that are mentioned in the holy Quran? If we contemplate the galaxies of the universe, we’ll realise that such galaxies consist of billions of stars and such stars adorn the sky, heavens. It could be said, therefore, that all the stars and galaxies that we see around us is within the boundaries of the lower heavens because Allah, the exalted says in the holy Qur’an: “So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge.” Fussilat: 41:12 Lights in the above verse means stars and as we know that stars are outside the solar group and the closest star to us in planet earth is 4.3 light years away i.e. all the stars we see adorn the first or lower heavens. As for the other heavens, merely Allah, the omniscient knows their boundaries. you cannot and you have not passed beyond the first heaven phys.org/news/2014-09- laniakea-newly-galactic- supercluster-home.html in the comment box below A slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane -- an imaginary plane containing many of the most massive clusters in this structure. The colors represent density within this slice, with red for high densities and blue for voids -- areas with relatively little matter. Individual galaxies are shown as white dots. Velocity flow streams within the region gravitationally dominated by Laniakea are shown in white, while dark blue flow lines are away from the Laniakea local basin of attraction. The orange contour encloses the outer limits of these streams, a diameter of about 160 Mpc. This region contains the mass of about 100 million billion suns. Credit: SDvision interactive visualization software by DP at CEA/Saclay, France.
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