Astronomical Facts * At their closest, Earth is 2.7 Billion miles from Neptune * On average, the Earth is 93 Million miles from the Sun * A light-year is approximately 5,878,499,810,000 miles * Our Sun/Solar System is approximately 4.2 light-years away from the next Star/Solar System * Some of the other known stars are 1,000 times the radius/size of our Sun and Millions of times as bright * Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains 100-400 Billion Stars and may contain at least as many planets with some planets confirmed to be in habitable zones * There are Hundreds of Billions of Galaxies in our known Universe, each with Hundreds of Billions of Stars and Solar Systems * The Milky Way is part of a local group of galaxies, which forms a sub-component of the Virgo Supercluster * Our Universe is approximately 13.8 Billion years old and theorized to be a bubble universe among an ocean of multiverses
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:30:05 +0000
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