Scale of the Universe - Be Amazed!

Everyone knows the universe is huge, but most people don't understand how huge it really is. This article will try to show the amazingly massive scale of the universe to you.  It surely is a very humbling experience!

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Earth - Our Home

This is our Home. All of us live, love, wage wars, spend our entire lifetimes here.

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Earth compared to  smaller Planets in our Solar System

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Earth compared to  larger Planets in our Solar System

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Compared to our Sun

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Our Sun compared to other Stars

Our Sun is just a tiny speck compared to other stars!

Hard to even make out in the picture with the Sun just 1 pixel wide. Jupiter becomes invisible at this scale.

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Milky Way - Our Galaxy

There are 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way. 

 

The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years  in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 ly thick. 

 

Our Milky Way galaxy is small compared to other galaxies. Our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy has over one trillion stars!

 

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The Observable Universe

This is a Hubble Ultra Deep Field image of a small region of the observable universe (equivalent sky area size shown in bottom left corner). 

Each spot is a galaxy, consisting of billions of stars.
There are more than 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

 

Be Amazed!

" Everything that starts must always end.........even a Bad Day."

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 SMILE, IT'S TAX FREE!

(¨`·.·´¨) So - Keep Smiling,

  `·.¸(¨`·.·´¨) I will be

(¨`·.·´¨) ¸.·´ BacK

  `·.¸.·´ - With Love

   ((( SuN!L))) 

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DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!

Question and the Answer given by Candidates, they are IAS (Indian Administrative Services - One of the most difficult examination in India.


Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)


Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 rd Rank Opted for IFS)


Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)


Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)


Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)


Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)


Q. What looks like half apple?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )


Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A : Dinner.


Q. What happened when wheel was invented?
A : It caused a revolution.


Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid


Sometimes just thinking out of the box is what it takes!


Cheers !!!!

Some Facts

**Did you know you share your birthday with at
least 9 other million people in the world?


**The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


**When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.


**The human heart creates enough pressure when
it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.


**Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.


**On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.


**The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.


**"I am."
is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


**The longest word in the English language is 1909
letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.


**It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


**Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.


**You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.


**Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.


**Every time you lick a stamp,
you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.


**Cat's urine glows under a black light.


**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


**In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.


**Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.


**Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.


**The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


**The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


**Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.


**One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp
farmers...they saw it as competition.




**You know that you are more likely to be killed
by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.


**Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.


**There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.


**The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."


**If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would
have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.


**Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
dogs only have about ten.


**Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.


**In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.


**If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be
39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and
have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.


**The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia,
has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.