The Structure of the Universe
- Our Earth is a planet orbiting the sun which is a star.
- Our star is very far from other stars.
- Stars sometimes clump together to form star clusters.
- Hundreds of billions of stars clump together to form a galaxy.
- Galaxies are very very far apart.
- Galaxies sometimes clump together to form galaxy clusters.
- Galaxy clusters are really far apart.
- Galaxy clusters sometimes clump together to form superclusters.
- Very far away are quasars.
- At the edge of what we see is the faint glow of the big bang.
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Last updated January 10, 2000.