According to the video the universe is so vast that researches use special notation to write out distances. A fact that really surprised me was that the nearest star, Proxima Centauri is 25 trillion miles away from us and its light, the fastest thing in the universe, takes 4.24 light years to reach us! One among the many interesting things I learned in the video is that the sun is bright only because it is closer to us than other stars. It is explained, how the sun is one of the billions stars in the milky way galaxy, and a more surprising fact is that this is just one of some fifty billion galaxies! The narration describes the sun as a pot of nuclear reactions boiling beneath its surface. Sadly, one day it will die…. just like us (Understanding the
According to the video the universe is so vast that researches use special notation to write out distances. A fact that really surprised me was that the nearest star, Proxima Centauri is 25 trillion miles away from us and its light, the fastest thing in the universe, takes 4.24 light years to reach us! One among the many interesting things I learned in the video is that the sun is bright only because it is closer to us than other stars. It is explained, how the sun is one of the billions stars in the milky way galaxy, and a more surprising fact is that this is just one of some fifty billion galaxies! The narration describes the sun as a pot of nuclear reactions boiling beneath its surface. Sadly, one day it will die…. just like us (Understanding the