Eula Jessa A.

Abarca Astronomy
MWF(7pm-8pm)

BEED IV September 5, 2016

How Great is our Universe?

At day, the most visible light is the sunshine brought to us by the sun.
And at night, the only light you see in the sky are the moon and the stars.
These are just the celestial bodies we are very familiar with because it is the
only bodies that are visible in the naked eye. Ive been agitated to know
what are those stars and why are they not falling and they seem to be static
at the sky. All I know is that they came from afar. But, are they moving? How
big are they? How far? How powerful?

The documentary video that was shown to us have given me answers

that are unexpectedly surprising. In our solar system, we have our star in the
middle. Although Ive known that the sun is a star and it is larger than life,
basically, the stars are giants. Sizes that I did not anticipated. I knew that we
all cant count all the stars in the nightsky. Imagine the count of sand from all
the seashores of the world. It is so astounding to know that they were more
than what I can comprehend. The sun is large but some celestial bodies are
bigger than our largest planet, bigger than our sun and bigger than the
planets and sun combined. Stars that are so large it can reach and swallow
more than half of the size of our solar system! I feel so tiny just to think that
our star is not any larger than other stars. Some of there stars are powerful
they can destroy large matter. They seemed to be alien in the human mind.

I have thought that the moon isnt that much far from our planet, then
Ive known that it is the closest celestial body but is very very far. Visible, but
far. Basically, it is impossible for a human to step to other planets! The
distances of the bodies in our solar system stretches beyond our human
experience. They are so afar that the study about its distance is timely.. Its
so remarkable that we measure the distances of planets and celestial bodies
in lightyear,

Distance measured according to the travel of light. And to think, it is so

timely the research takes a lot of time, more than a lifetime, to verify. The
speed of light is so fast that its speed is hard to concieve. I cannot imagine
how far a body is in a distance of millions of lighyears away.

Our solar system is just part of our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy. But then
again, there are also other galaxies that are bigger compared to the milky
way! What more can I think of our human size? I feel more beyond invisible.
There are many galaxies in the local group of galaxies, and each galaxy have
billions of stars. And each star are orbited by its own planets. How can I feel
alone about this? The universe is enormous and great indeed!