The Structure of the Universe

  1. Our Earth is a planet orbiting the sun which is a star.
  2. Our star is very far from other stars.
  3. Stars sometimes clump together to form star clusters.
  4. Hundreds of billions of stars clump together to form a galaxy.
  5. Galaxies are very very far apart.
  6. Galaxies sometimes clump together to form galaxy clusters.
  7. Galaxy clusters are really far apart.
  8. Galaxy clusters sometimes clump together to form superclusters.
  9. Very far away are quasars.
  10. At the edge of what we see is the faint glow of the big bang.


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By Dennis Webb |e-mail | web page.
Last updated January 10, 2000.