--His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,
in the things that have been made. Romans 1:20 ESV
"For those who slept through astronomy, here's a refresher:
"For those who slept through astronomy, here's a refresher:
Our sun, a star, is surrounded by nine-ish (more on that later) planets.
These star-planet clusters are called solar systems.
Clusters of solar systems are called galaxies. The Milky Way—that's
the galaxy we're in—is widely believed to have about 200 billion solar systems.
Researchers have pegged the observable universe—that's what we can tangibly see—at about 150 billion galaxies.
Honestly, though, it could go on, and on, and on, and on, and, well, you get the point.
In fact, a team of researchers at Oxford recently deployed a model that suggests the universe is at least 250 times larger than that.
In fact, a team of researchers at Oxford recently deployed a model that suggests the universe is at least 250 times larger than that.
To put the resulting figure in context, that's more zeros than we can get away with typing without crashing your web browser.
And that's just galaxies. Thinking about how that number applies to solar systems, let alone planets, is enough to melt anyone's brain." BL