which is bigger the solar system or the universe?
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omg what do you think????-.- the universe-duh! the solar system kinda is in the universe!!!! omg...stupid question (no offence)
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the sun is not the largest star in the milky way galaxy. just so you know. there are many more stars larger than it. and in a few billion years, the sun will go supernova, expanding many millions of miles to engulf all of the smaller planets, like mercury and Earth.
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There is only one universe, and to say it is expanding actually refers to the fact that the solar systems, galaxies, etc are all spreading apart from one another.  If you believe int he big bang theory, them think of yourself in one VERY slow explosion spreading out from that central core.  \n\nSo I guess to answer your question, it is expanding into itself.
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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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The size wise order of the planets in our Solar system is as follows:-\n1) Jupiter, 2) Saturn,3) Uranus or Herschel,4) Neptune\n5) Earth, 6) Venus, 7)Mars,8)Mercury,9)Pluto.\nThe largest is Jupiter and the smallest is Pluto. Our moon is a natural satellite of the earth and not an independent planet. It is smaller than Pluto.
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Your thinking is good, but you have to take into account the distance scales involved. On the scale of the entire universe, space is indeed expanding, but on the relatively tiny scale of distances in our solar system, the expansion is miniscule. Also, the gravitational forces involved with holding the planets in their orbits around the Sun easily overcomes the expansion rate.
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Space is infintie.  The universe,however, is not.
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The earth is one AU from the sun.  One AU is 93 million miles.  The diameter of the solar system is 80 AU.  There are about 6 trillion miles in a light year.  The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.\n\nPerforming the math.  The solar system has a diameter of .0012 light years.\n\nThe .0012 is derived from the following equeation - 93 million miles times 80AU divided by (186000 miles per second times (365 days times 24 hours times 60 minutes times sixty seconds).
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Ok...we don't know how big the entire universe is. It may well be infinite, which, assuming it is homogeneous, would mean that it has infinite mass. At any rate, physicists currently think it is "much larger" than the observable universe. How much larger? I don't think that they have any evidence. But let's assume that we can see 1% of all visible space. This would make the mass of the universe = 100 * 3 * 10^52 kg, or 3 * 10^55 kg.
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The smallest anything can be is called Plank length and it is approximately 1.6 × 10 (to the -35th power) meters.  \nAssuming "we" is the earth, we are very small compared to the size of the universe.  The "volume" of the observable universe is about  1.9 × 10 (to the 33rd power) light years, and the earth has a volume of approximately 8.2 x 10 (to the 12th power) miles, or 4 x 10 (to the -26 power) of a light year.  The universe, then, is about 4.7 x 10 (to the 58th power) times bigger than the earth.
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The universe in which we live is about 156 billion light years across.  Source: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3753115.stm  Whats beyond that, good luck
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If you mean our Solar system (there's other suns with planets revolving around them) then our Solar System is in our Galaxy...The Milky Way.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
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Jupiter is just the largest planet in our solar system-that's like saying uncle Joe in the largest person who ever lived, cause he is the largest person in the family!  We have already identified over a dozen planets much larger than Jupiter in other solar systems.  We havent even identified all the galaxies in the universe (each of which contains around 100 billion stars, each star of which may contain 10 or so planets), let alone seen all the planets there are..
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In the sense of a comoving distance scaled to the current conditions, the universe is only 13.7 billion light years in radius because the universe is only 13.7 billion years old. However, space itself may expand faster than c making the physical size associated with this much larger. This occurs when space expands while a photon in transit, and the photon may traverse a proper distance which is greater than the Hubble distance, or the traditionally defined edge of the observable universe.\n\nThere is some disagreement as to exactly how large the observable universe in proper distance is: a study of the cosmic microwave background radiation by WMAP in May 2004 states the universe is at least 78 billion light years in radius, yet the March 2005 issue of Scientific American cites a figure of 46 billion lys in every direction. The ambiguity in size is dependent on the detailed models of the Hubble Law, especially the nonlinear nature of dark energy component of the universe which is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.\n\nIn practice we can only observe objects as far as the surface of last scattering 300,000 years after the big bang when the universe had cooled sufficiently to permit electrons to bind to atomic nuclei, which brought a halt to the Compton scattering of ambient photons.
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For all we know there is nothing "outside" the universe, so obviously no way to look "at" it from any "outside". That way there is no way to compare the size of it, why you could probably say, the universe is infinitely small. There is a mathematical smallest size, called the Planck-Size. That is just where space ends to be space, so there is no inside. As simple as that. You don't need to invent any kind of god to think about those things.
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No.\nThe Universe is a physical object.  It has a definite size and shape.  The Universe is so big that we do not know its limits.  Our ability to comprehend is not the problem, our technology is.  If we had the right equipment, we could see to the end of the Universe and mesure its size and shape.