Post #7: Travels in Time and Space
While watching episode 8, of Carl Sagan’s The Cosmos, he explains the vastness of stars and makes it easier to understand this vastness by using grains of sand as a scale. He explains that if you were to take a handful of sand it would consist of about 10,000 grains of sand. This is comparable to the amount of stars we can see with the naked eye. The collection of stars we can see on a clear night only consists of the nearest stars and some bright distant ones. The number of stars in the universe is much bigger than what we can see to the naked eye. The number of starts in the universe is larger than all the grains of sands on all the beaches on earth. That’s a lot of stars!
Out of this World 