The Universe
As Douglas Adams wrote in
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
“Space is big. Really big.
You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.
I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
So we’ll start at the beginning and work our way along until we get to some things we can wrap our minds round.
Click on any of the thumbnail pictures below to see and read what it’s all about.
The first part (with the pink background ) is essentially about cosmology and
quantum physics (the very big picture and the very small one, too).
The next part (with the red background ) is of topics that
are generally non-scientific in nature.
The last part (with the green background ) has trailers for the
astronomy and space research topics on this web-site.
Cosmic
Microwave
Background
Radiation
Dark
Energy
and
Dark
Matter
The
Higgs
Boson
There are a hundred billion stars (that’s 100,000,000,000) in each galaxy and a hundred billion galaxies in the Universe.
Each star “burns” for billions of years.
We’re talking big numbers here,
so check my maths page
If all this is too mindboggling, there are pages of other photographs, art, transport, opinions, fiction, classical and pop music, comedy, fun, jokes, male pin-ups, my family tree...
Galaxies (Spiral, Elliptical, Milky Way,...)
Nebulae (Crab, Horse-head, Pillars of Creation,...)
Stars (Yellow Hypergiant, Brown Dwarf, Supernovae, ...)
Solar System (Sun, Planets, Earth [from space, time-lapse images, aurora], Moons, Asteroids, Comets,...)
Spacecraft that left the immediate vicinity of the Earth or which were primarily for non-Earth observations
