Been busy as usual but I'm now addicted to reading up about the cosmos. Lol an old interest since young. Been reading a lot about the whatever there is to read. Be it black holes/quasars, novas, tachyons, star magnitudes, dark matter, planet X aka Nibiru, and so on and so for. These stuffs are so huge, so far away, it makes us here on Earth look freaking tiny. Astronomers use Astronomical Units(AU) to measure distances. 1 AU is 93 million miles or 149598000km or the distance from the Earth to the sun. Pluto, the furthest ex-planet, is 39.5AU away from the sun. That's like almost 6 billion km away! Another unit that astronomers use to measure distance that are extremely far is to use Lightyears. That's the distance covered by light in one year, which is 300,000 x 31556926 secs (number of seconds per year) = almost 10 trillion km.Now imagine this. The nearest galaxy that is similar to our galaxy, the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy, which is 2million Light years away. So... you do the maths. Our own galaxy is about 100000 lightyears across. Yes, that's fucking huge! How can there not be life elsewhere?! You're talking about roughly 100 billion stars in one galaxy. Seriously, there are some other fucks out there looking up in the sky wondering where the fuck are we. And you think it couldn't get any bigger, there's a blob like structure out there in space that's 200 million lightyears wide. Our Earth, about 12000km in diameters, the sun is 1.4 million km across, from sun to pluto is, 39.5AU, 6 billion km, from sun to the nearest star, proxima centuari, 4.3 light years, which is 39.9 trillion km away, our galaxy is 100,000 km across, which is 9.5×1017 km. So imagine the biggest fucking thing in the Universe is 200 million lightyears wide. THAT'S FUCKINGLY HUGE!
So that's the biggest thing. The furthest thing? Is at 13.2 billion lightyears away. Don't even think of how far is that. Its far beyond farrrr.. If you're traveling at the speed of light, 300,000km per sec, you'll reach there in 13.2 billion years.
So with all these huge, huge spaces, I can't help but be damn curious about it. What the heck is out there? We're so vulnerable that we can't go out there to space without being in danger of radiation. To see a black hole devouring nearby stars, to see quasars in the center of galaxies, to see humangous supergiant stars going off in supernovas, these are the magnificient things that I've been so curious and amazed of since I was young. Its just breathtaking to think about it.
*Random ramblings*
