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\nHow big is the universe? How big is space? No, it’s much bigger than that.The sun is a million times bigger than earth.Imagine for a minute that the Sun was the size of this basketball. Earth would be about the size of this nail...\nHow big is the universe? How big is space? No, it’s much bigger than that.

The sun is a million times bigger than earth.

Imagine for a minute that the Sun was the size of this basketball. Earth would be about the size of this nail head.

And how far do you think it would be. This far?…maybe this far?

Nope and nope. This nail head would be 100 feet away.

Now…here’s the big question, how far away would the nearest star be?

That answer is going to shock you!

Do you think it would be a thousand feet away, a mile, 10 miles maybe?

Nope, nope and nope.

I am currently located near New York City in the United States. To see the nearest star to our basketball sun, I would need to travel to Russia.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Now, here is the really shocking part. There are 200 billion such starts in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

…And each one of these stars are as far from each other as our sun is from its nearest star.

And what’s in between. Pretty much just empty space.

And here is something even more mind-boggling than that – the Milky Way galaxy is one of just 2 Trillion such galaxies in the Universe.

Let that sink in for a second.

The vastness of space, and its emptiness is mind boggling. But it’s the truth. Can you handle it? \n
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\nArvin Ash\n\n
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2018
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