What is the universe?

In the Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger galaxy. Galaxies in the universe is billions of the visible universe, but what is more important is the home system. In the Milky Way from Earth can see a light in the night sky. Difficult to see the light of the city, but you can see in the dark.

An entire galaxy of stars. Plane of the Milky Way is inclined by 60 degrees around the orbit of the world. The galaxy is known by many. constellations Scorpius, Ara, Norma, according to Triangle Circinus, Centaurus, Musca, mystery, Carina, Vela, Puppo, dog place, Monoceros, Orion and Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Perseus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Lacerta, Cygnus, Vulpecula. , Sagitta, Aquila, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius and Bangladesh.

Galaxy that appears if you want to bow brilliant. Galaxy to the south as far as running high - fantasy face of the earth equatorial constellation aircraft. Galaxy in the sky in two Hemispheres Divide said that the system is near galactic aircraft.

The Milky Way about 100,000 light years in diameter and about 1,000 light show next year. This is at least 200 billion stars and up to 400 million stars. Research estimates that the remaining gas from the Milky Way about 12,000 light years thick.

Difficult to determine the age of the universe. It is involved in 13.2 billion years is almost as old as the universe itself. Estimates based on research in 2004, with the help of ultraviolet rays - Visual échelle spectrographs large telescopes.

by Alexander Sutton