How large is the universe?
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As large as you can imagine, and possibly larger than that! It depends what you want to call The Universe- is it as long as the distance to the farthest object known to us? Or are there other objects beyond that? If you measure to the farthest visible object, the universe is approximately 12-15 billion light-years away, in all directions.
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earth= 5 billion, sun= 7 billion, sky ie universe= 12 billion\nmoon= 4 billion
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Odds are that the universe IS teeming with life.  We haven't been to the universe -- it's very big and most of it is too far away.
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The number of stars in the visible universe is estimated to be 70 sextillion, or 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 [seven followed by twenty-two zeros].\n\nor\n\nWikipedia claims that the observable universe contains about 7 × 1022 stars, organized in about 100 billion galaxies, which themselves form clusters and superclusters. An Ask the Scientist response to this question claimed that there are about 10 billion (10^10) stars in an average galaxy, \nand there are about 10 billion galaxies that we can observe in the universe, so the answer is 100 billion billion or 10^20. I don't think it is an issue that we have a precise answer for as yet.
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no it's nothing bigger. space is the universe. that's why it's called the universe(uni meaning one) because there is only one of it. space is vast and it is the something bigger
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Yes I do. Think of how big we can honestly say we know that space is, then think a million times that size. There are probably millions of different universes out there.
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Your question assumes the first part is correct.  It is just an assumption. We can define the universe as everything that exists - therefore precluding anything bigger. In other words, the universe is it - all there is. It includes all matter, energy, forms, spirits if you will, everything we can conceive of and everything we cannot conceive of.  Okay?
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The universe has no center, but it is not infinite.  It is finite but unbounded, like the surface of a golf ball.  The surface does not have a center nor a boundary, but it is not infinite.
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Space is infintie.  The universe,however, is not.
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There is disagreement over whether the universe is indeed finite or infinite in spatial extent and volume.\n\nHowever, the observable universe, consisting of all locations that could have affected us since the Big Bang given the finite speed of light, is certainly finite. The edge of the cosmic light horizon is 13.7 billion light years (4.19 Gpc) distant. The present distance (comoving distance) to the edge of the observable universe is larger, due to the ever increasing rate at which the universe has been expanding; it is estimated to be about 78 billion light years (7.8 × 1010 light years, or 7.4 × 1026 m). This would make the comoving volume, of the known universe, equal to 1.9 × 1033 cubic light years (assuming this region is perfectly spherical). The observable universe contains about 7 × 1022 stars, organized in about 100 billion galaxies, which themselves form clusters and superclusters. The number of galaxies may be even larger, based on the Hubble Deep Field observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope discovered galaxies such as Abell 1835 IR1916, which are over 13 billion light years from Earth.\n\nBoth popular and professional research articles in cosmology often use the term "universe" when they really mean "observable universe". This is because unobservable physical phenomena are scientifically irrelevant; that is, they cannot affect any events that we can perceive. See also Causality (physics).
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On one theory, the space of the Universe (as well as its contents) is what's expanding. That theory says the total amount of space is finite, and that finite quantity just gets bigger every second.  What, you might then ask, is outside of space?  There's no outside!  It's like asking, "What's north of the North Pole?"
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The universe is basically everything.  The visible universe is the part of the universe that is known to us, it is the farthest we can see and, hence, the farthest we can study.  There may be more beyond this but it is kind of silly for us to worry much about it at this point because it is beyond our reach.\n\nVacuum (I'm assuming that's what you were typing), is supposed to be the complete lack of matter.  If you say that there is a vacuum inside a box then there should be no atoms inside the box.  We say that space is a vacuum but this is really a generalization.  Space is not completely empty but things thin-out the further you get away from the Earth, our sun, our galaxy...\n\nI'm not sure how one creates a real vacuum.  No one really knows how our universe came into existence but we have a very good guess that it started with the Big Bang.  There is some evidence to support this.\n\nHere are two websites that describe it better than I could if you are interested.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang\n\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html
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at the present time we define the universe by four dimensions, length, width, height, and time.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
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Science nor anyone else can answer your question! As far as science can determine, our universe (space) is not contained within any 'thing' else. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, they're just blowin' smoke.
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i don't think in terms of the universe being massive compared to the size of galaxies,but minuscule compared to that which is outside the universe, that way there is an endless supply of material on hand.here at the"center of the universe"it's all relative to our thinking everything is so large but since all we can do is theorize about whats out there,why cant we theorize outside the box,way outside the box. where did science get this idea ? i believe that a chaotic set of galaxies brings about an ordered universe that is a single organism of a larger set of chaotic universes,which in turn forms ordered groups of galactic multiverses which is a small component of a megaverse ,and so on
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
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Actually there is only one universe which encompasses everything: "All matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space" - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=universe\n\nThe earth is part of a galaxy which we call the 'Milky Way'.