THE TRULY TREMENDOUS UNIVERSE

THE TRULY TREMENDOUS UNIVERSE

The majesty and vastness of the universe gives us a glimpse into the tremendous power of Allah (SWT). The circumference of our planet earth is
about forty thousand kilometers, which is a distance that light, can travel seven times in one second. As the distances become larger the numbers
become mind boggling. The universe is so vast that the distances between stars and galaxies have to be measured in "light years," which is the
distance traveled by light in a year at the speed of three hundred thousand kilometers per second.

Our solar system consists of the earth and eight other planets that are orbiting around a star that we call the sun. The distance between earth and sun
is eight minutes at the speed of light. The distance to the furthest planet Pluto is five hours and twenty eight minutes at the speed of light, compared to
this, the nearest star from the earth other than our sun, is four light years away.

Our sun with its planets along with approximately two hundred billion stars is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way, like most other galaxies is
so large that traveling at the speed of light; it would take one hundred and fifty thousand years to go from one side of it to the other. The galaxies are
separated from each other by few hundred thousand to millions of light years. According to recent estimates there are over two trillion galaxies in the
truly gigantic universe.