SEVEN FACTS
ABOUT THE UNIVERSE.
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- The view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
- The universe began with the Big Bang, and it is estimated to be approximately 13.7 billion years old ( +,- 130 million years). There may be more universes but yet seems to a hypothetical.
- Universe is not static rather than expending. In 1198, the Hubble Space Telescope studied very distant supernovas and found that, a long time ago, the universe was expanding more slowly than present.
- Dark energy is one of the mysterious things and cause for expansion of the cosmos. It is not only expanding but also accelerating.
- The shape of the universe is influenced by the struggle between the pull of dark matter and rate of expansion, therefore, it might be a sphere like shape. It means universe is not infinite but has no end.
- The universe is filled with dark matter or invisible matter. The stars, planets and galaxies are only 4% of the universe according to the researchers. The other 96% is made up of invisible matter.
- It takes 225 million years for our sun to travel around galaxy.
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