Monday, June 30, 2014

Top 10 Stunning Facts About the Universe

Top 10 Stunning Facts About the UniverseUniverse is made up of all the planets, stars, galaxies and all of other things inside it. It is so vast that only estimation values are used to measure it. Even though there are values given and written in different books regarding universe, these values are only used to justify the counting of the infinite numbers of galaxies, stars and planets within the universe, and these are the limitations of human knowledge and the limitations of Science. Published facts about the universe are only the facts that human knowledge can reach and still, they are limited. But one thing is for sure, there is a limitless God who created all these things, and this God is the only God who can answer and explain all the questions that human knowledge cannot explain. Now for this top ten article it is all about the 10 stunning facts about the universe. Have some time to read and checkout the 10 listed facts below.



TOP : 10
Fact : The universe contains around 50,000,000,000 galaxies each of which has between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000, stars.
Source : Life Science Centre

Galaxies inside the Universe
Galaxies inside the Universe



TOP : 9
Fact : At the speed of light, time stops.
Source : National Geographic

Speed of light
Speed of light



TOP : 8
Fact : Dark matter makes up 83% of the matter in the universe but we can't see it and we don't know what it is.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK and BBC

The dark matter
The dark matter



TOP : 7
Fact : Time passes more slowly in orbit around the Earth meaning, returning astronauts arrive home slightly younger than if they had spent the same amount of time on Earth.
Source : National Geographic

Astronaut in space
Astronaut in space



TOP : 6
Fact : Atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space meaning all the matter making up the entire human race could fit into a sugar cube.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK

Atoms empty space
Atoms empty space



TOP : 5
Fact : Just a thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
Source : Life Science

Neutron star
Neutron star



TOP : 4
Fact : Sagittarius 3, an interstellar gas cloud contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol.
Source : Softedia

Sagittarius 3
Sagittarius 3



TOP : 3
Fact : The most powerful explosions ever witnessed in the universe are gamma-ray bursts - they are trillions of times brighter than our sun.
Source : National Geographic

Gamma Ray bursts
Gamma Ray bursts



TOP : 2
Fact : In quantum Physics causality can work backwards. Our choices in the present can effectively determine what occurred in the past.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK

Hakan Nordkvist - The Time Traveller?



TOP : 1
Fact : According to some models of cosmology, there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of people watching this video.
Source : Daily Telegraph

Holographic universe?
Holographic universe?



Data Sources :
  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD75zV05NQg
  • www.en.wikipedia.org
Photos Sources :
  • www.news.nationalgeographic.com
  • www.astronomytime.com
  • www.gameconnect.net
  • www.wallpaper77.com
  • www.wired.co.uk
  • www.en.wikipedia.org
  • www.astronomytours.co.uk
  • www.en.wikipedia.org
  • www.fromquarkstoquasars.com
  • www.youtube.com
  • www.dailygalaxy.com
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