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The amount of stars in this picture.
The amount of matter in each of these stars.

What the actual FUCK is the universe?

>> No.4676560

a bunch of sperm

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Clusters of clusters of galaxies.

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Dark matter is five times more abundant than your typical idea of matter.
Hold me, /sci/.

>> No.4676571

>>4676555
>What the actual FUCK is the universe?
It's just a bunch of shit laid about.

>> No.4676596

it seems intimidating because you are small

if you were the size of a nebula it would seem like much less.

but you're not, you're one person. your'e on one planet, out of billions of billions in one galaxy, out of billions of billions of galaxies.
you're tiny.

the universe, is not.

but just as you grew from a child into an adult, humanity will grow from this planet into the stars.

and then it will seem less frightening

>> No.4676622

>>4676596
Scale of the universe is comprehensible, not to us yet but yes.
But, can the scale of physical reality be conceived of?

>> No.4676625

>>4676596
> out of billions of billions in one galaxy, out of billions of billions of galaxies.
No.
~300 billion stars in the Galaxy. A few million planets per star may be asking a bit much. Especial since many stars cannot support planets.
>80 billion galaxies. Would be hard for this estimate to be wrong by so much.

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