The True Reality Of How Big The Universe Is
🌌 "You are not just a speck in the universe. You are a speck in a speck. And that speck is a speck of a speck."The observable universe spans 93 billion light-years across, containing over 2 trillion galaxies. Each galaxy holds hundreds of billions of stars. The Milky Way alone is 100,000 light-years wide, yet it is just one of 54 galaxies in our Local Group. That group is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which itself is a fringe of the Laniakea Supercluster, stretching 500 million light-years across. And Laniakea may be part of an even larger basin of attraction, possibly 10 times its volume…
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