Stallions Ghore Fera Split Mind Art by Partha

Components of Universe

Author: Debu Chaudhuri | Posted on: 9th, May, 2024

Instead of analyzing how the universe begins, let us look at the sky and look at the countless stars. Ancient astronomers realized its vastness and were happy to write about stars in their lifetime. I will not go into the timeline of development in this branch of science. But look into the unimaginable knowledge of COSMOS bestows on us. And we will simply go through their findings. Let us imagine the Universe as a whole and a whole entity that consists of many large well-defined objects or components. Just imagine, we are so lucky that we will begin our thought with inconceivable knowledge that took many thousands of years of hard work by millions of great philosophers, astronomers, physicists, scientists, and folklore. Hats off to them and now focus on the subject.
Structure of the Universe

It is infinite,
Unending empty Space,
Gases,
Solid Particles.

Scientifically and astronomically defined objects in the entire space are –
Trillion of Galaxies as estimated today. The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest one to us.
A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, rocks, unfathomable dimensions of empty space, and unbelievable numbers of stars and their solar systems, each held together by its gravity.

Each Galaxy contains – trillions of stars, and many solar systems, and the entire galaxy is tightly bound by its own gravity mechanism.

The Andromeda Galaxy is very important due to its proximity to the Milky Way, just to keep a watchful eye on the next-door neighbor, and it is visible to the naked eye from Earth, so said. But I didn’t know what part of the sky it can be seen. I noticed our Milkway while I was at Behala in dark night. Then Behala was not truly part of Calcutta.

Our galaxy – is a part of the Milky Way which holds more than 50 galaxies.
It would make more sense to think about our own galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy has many solar systems. We reside in our solar system out of a few thousand (~4000) solar systems (like our sun with its planets etc. orbiting around with its own gravity mechanics)  in our galaxy. Our solar system is a tiny part of the Milky Way. When we look at the sky we see many other stars associated with their solar systems in our Milky Way. Planets and asteroids are all part of it.  The Milky Way was clearly visible from the primitive age by the naked eye. Hubble, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, and other modern telescopes have captured the supermassive black hole, probably the birth source of our galaxy. It may be a connection point conduit to other galaxies like an umbilical cord. It is absolutely possible that others from their own solar systems of the Milky Way galaxy are watching us and imagining alien intelligent species’ existence.

It is mindboggling that our scientists estimated that there are billions of galaxies in space. Modern telescopes are so powerful that they can determine many types of supermassive black holes which are associated with each galaxy of many sizes and shapes, scientists named them pinwheel, spiral, elliptical, and oval-shaped galaxies. Our nearest galaxy Andromeda may be crashed with our galaxy in a billion years.
No sense in spinning our heads now, just trust our astrophysicist.

It would be fair to list some of the important object types as discovered throughout the space.

Galaxies
Stars
Black Holes
Planets
Comets
Meteors
Asteroid

I think this is a good time to stop here. By nature, everything has a beginning and ending. Just as a baby is born and finally dies at old age, we can be sure our galaxy along with its all components will eventually die. At a later date, we will discuss the origin of our galaxy.

1 Comment »

  1. A very well-written piece, Debu. Through rather simple language,you have been able to convey some monumental
    thoughtsand ideas. And with it, you have sprouted within me at least, additional thirst for knowledge and wonderment.

    Comment by Partha Sircar — May 10, 2024 @ 12:32 am

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

What’s new

p/1943190224Paperback and e-book formats. Please click below:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zLrHEAAAQBAJ
Editor’s book:
https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/829905-born-in-heaven
Poems –  Poems of Twilight Years from Kamal Acharyya.

Arts – Partha Ghosh

Q1 – 2026 contributors (School & College)
Tirthankar Das
Jhelum Chatterjee
Deblina Singha Roy

Q3-2025 contributors (School and College)
Arhon Jana
Molay Konar
Anuska Saha
Ayush Roy
Sagnika Sinha

Deep appreciation for many young contributors in all categories.

Quotes

Funniest Quotes about ageing

“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
– *Mark Twain*

HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING

Day's history

15th July

1903 Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1916 Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington

16th July

1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project

17th July

1936 Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom

18th July

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army

19th July

1848 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, Indian physician and teacher, dies at 81

20th July

1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80

21st July

1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM 22nd July
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
2012 Pranab Mukherjee is elected 13th President of India

22nd July

1678 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.
1981 India’s first experimental geostationary communication satellite ‘Apple’ started working which was launched on June 19, 1981

Day's humor

Week's Horoscope

Horoscope