universe, n.Trivia

If the history of the entire universe were compressed into one calendar year, humans would appear around 11:59 p.m. on December 31st. The dinosaurs would have been wiped out on December 30th.

There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe

The universe is expanding at 74.3 km per second per megaparsec.

There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand in all the deserts and beaches in the world

The universe is expanding --- the other galaxies in the universe are moving away from us, some are millions of light-years away

The Universe is beige. Astronomers nicknamed its average color “Cosmic Latte.”

The universe is ninety-five percent dark matter or dark energy which can't be detected

Nighttime is the natural state of the universe. Daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.

Space is silent, even with all the explosions, movement, and combustion because sound cannot travel in a vacuum

Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would still take you 46.5 billion years to reach the edge of the observable universe.

Our galaxy is just one of two trillion in the observable universe.

You only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom