''Big Bang'' |
''Stars'' |
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The Universe is everything that we can ever know all of space and all of time. It is almost entirely empty with small clusters of matter and energy. Therefore the Universe is about 15 billion years old. However, estimates vary. The Big Bang explosion is how scientists think the Universe began 15 billion years ago. Amazing Fact: Scientists believe that because both space and time with the Big Bang there may the possibly be no time before it occurred.
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A star a ball of gas so hot that it burns and glows. The temperatures of stars range from 3,812 F to about 90,012 F. The color of star it is an indication of hot it is. White stars are hotter than red ones but some stars become even hotter and shine with a blue light. Amazing Fact: It is estimated that there are about 50,000 billion billion stars in the Universe more than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. |