Thursday, November 1, 2007

The Enormous Universe

Yes...it's an enormous universe...yes, indeed...


I found those two pictures above on the Internet, of course. Those two beautiful pictures are--sadly to say--not real, but ratherly made up. The scientific knowledge that we have currently are not sufficient to create an entire accurate map of the universe, so scientists still got a lot of work to do to figure out all the mysteries.

The image at the left side shows a lot of galaxies: some are small, and some are larger than others. There are different types of galaxies:


Aren't those pictures awesome?!! There are perhaps more types of galaxies that scientists haven't discovered yet that still remains unexplored in the giant universe, but we'll eventually find it! :)

The elliptical galaxy is a galaxy that has an elliptical shape. ~construction~
The spiral galaxy is a galaxy that has a spiral shape. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy. The spiral shape is formed by the different pulls of gravity. Well, it's like some parts have stronger gravity, so the stars are closer to each other which forms this thick line. The other parts have less gravity, so there are less stars and it seems like there's a gap there. ~perhaps under construction~

The irregular galaxy is well a weird galaxy that doesn't fall in any of the other categories. ~under construction~

The star burst galaxy ... ~MAJOR CONSTRUCTION~

The ring galaxy has the shape of a ring, of course. It's unusual? ~need more research~

Anyways, you are probably asleep by the time you finish reading this, but this is just like 1/1000000000 part about the universe. I know, that just made you feel a lot better. XD

1 comment:

sharon said...

Oh wow, i have no idea what that was. But it was cool. :] [Yawn...*] Well anyways... have fun stargazing. :)