Tuesday, January 13, 2009

School is in Session

Ok So I started school yesterday and I am already learning or should I say Re-learning all sorts of fun stuff about our Universe. Yep, that's right. Stars, Planets, Big balls of gas, and so on. I am taking Astronomy. So I thought with all my new found intellect I will share some tidbits here and there throughout my semester. Now I realize that everyone else on the planet most likely already knows this crap, but hey, I am a hermit, remember? Please feel free to leave comments!!!

~1 billion years ago: The most advanced form of life on our Earth was a worm.

~The farther away we look in distance, the further back we look in time.

~The number of stars in the observable universe is comparable to the number of grains of dry sand found on ALL the beaches of Earth.

~We can only see as far as 14 Billion light-years away. Beyond that, we would be looking back into time when nothing existed to see.

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