Physical geography

The universe and The Solar

System

The Universe
The Universe is infinite. It has neither beginning nor the
end.
Universe include stars, planets, satellites, comets,
meteors, etc.
The universe is about 13.7 billion years old.
The universe, believably spread over a distance of 156
billion light years, is still expanding.
The universe came into being by Big Bang Theory.

Galaxies

A galaxy is a giant family of

millions of stars, held together
by its own gravitational field.
The Universe is organized into
galaxies of stars, along with
gas and dust.
Our galaxy is called the Milky
Way, member of the cluster of
galaxies which has 35
members.
It looks like fairly flat disc with
a thick cloud of stars in the
centre.
About 25% of galaxies are of
spiral shape.

Our Galaxy

The Milky Way is more predominant in the southern hemisphere.

Its a flat disc, bulging at it centre, with diameter of 100,000 light years and
the thickness of the disc is 500 -2000 light years.
It has two spiral arms, the sun lies nearly 33,000 light years away from its
centre. The galaxy is rotating
At the center there is swirling masses of gas and stars which takes about
million years to circuit the centre.
The rotation speed near sun is less, i.e., 250km.per second.
Were about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy.
It turns out were not located in one of the Milky Ways two primary spiral
arms. Instead were located in minor arm of galaxy.
Our local spiral arm is sometimes Orion Arm, sometimes Orion Spur. Its
between the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms of the milky Way.