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65000000

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The Immensity of Space

  • The structures in the universe vary greatly in scale.
  • To understand the scale of these structures, imagine that you are going on a journey through the universe...

Scientific Notation

  • Scientific notation uses powers of ten to write very large or very small numbers in shorter form.
  • Each number is written as the product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10.

Scale of the Universe

  • Astronomers define the universe as all of space and everything in it.
  • Since the numbers astronomers use are often very large or very small, they frequently use scientific notation to describe sizes and distances in the universe.

The Scale of the Universe

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