10 Objects That Will RUIN Your Perception of Space

 

The universe is endless and largely unexplored, and it’s filled with massive objects that we

 couldn’t even begin to comprehend.

 Welcome to [channel], and in this article, we’ll be going

 through a selection of the largest objects located in the universe.

 Here are 10 of the BIGGEST objects in the universe: 10.

 The Sun

 Starting things off within the Solar System, the largest object that’s located entirely within the

 Solar System is, predictably, the sun.

 Since the sun is an object that we see every single day, it

 might not really seem all that special or unique, but the fact that we are so close to something

 so massive is a big deal.

 For thousands of light years around us, there is no object even comparable to the size of the sun.

 Just for comparison, Jupiter is the next largest object in our

 solar system, and as you can see, the sun absolutely dwarfs Jupiter completely.

 The Earth, on

 the other hand, is so small compared to the sun that it seems like a mere speckle when placed

 next to it.

 In fact, if the sun was some hollow object, you could fit 1.3 million earths inside of it.

 9.

 GQ Lupi b

 Now that we’ve talked about objects within the solar system, let’s talk about the largest exoplanet that we know of.

 An exoplanet is any sort of planet that’s located outside of our solar system.

 They’re a relatively recent discovery, but since the 90s, we’ve uncovered countless exoplanets of all shapes and sizes, with some of them having some really strange features.

 One

 of the most incredible exoplanets ever discovered would have to be the GQ Lupi b, an exoplanet that’s located about 100 astronomical units away from the earth.

 The GQ Lupi b is the largest exoplanet ever discovered, and it’s the only exoplanet that we have an actual telescopic

 picture of.

 It’s large enough to be 36 times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet within the solar

 system, but there’s evidence that suggests that the planet is still young, and might get smaller

 as it evolves.

 8.

 UY Scuti

 At this point you probably have an idea of how big the sun is, and you can’t overstate its size,

 but what if we told you there are other stars, much like the sun, that makes it look like a dot in

 comparison.

 What we’re referring to here is the UY Scuti, the single largest star that has been discovered so far in our universe.

 The UY Scuti is about 1,700 times the size of the sun, the

 sheer size of this star is incomprehensible.

 It was first discovered in the 1800s at the Bonn

 observatory in Germany, and while its radius is 1,700 times that of the sun, the volume of this

 star is said to be 5 billion times more than the sun.

 If the UY Scuti was placed at the center of the solar system, it would engulf most of the planets here, and it would reach as far as Jupiter,

 with the gasses from this star reaching as far as where Pluto is.

 7.

 The Tarantula Nebula Nebulas are one of space’s most unique objects, they’re found almost everywhere and are a

 result of a combination of interstellar dust, helium, hydrogen, and many other types of gases.

 Nebulas can come in striking formations that’ll blow your mind away, they can also come in a

 unique set of colors.

 The single largest Nebula that we know of is the Tarantula Nebula.

 The

 tarantula nebula is located about 170,000 light years away from the earth, and its own size is a

 massive 1,800 light years itself.

 This nebula is where the largest number of the universe’s stars are actually born, we might have actually seen some of these stars from right here on earth.

 It’s

 also one of the most photographed nebulas in the universe, with plenty of pictures and illustrations being captured by the likes of NASA, ESA, and other space agencies around the

 world.

 6.

 IC 1101

 When you think of something as big and vast as the Milky Way, it’s hard to imagine anything could be bigger than it.

 The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across, and is home to the solar system among many other things, but this 100,000 light year galaxy is just about average

 when compared to the size of some other galaxies, there are galaxies that are millions of light years across, some of them don’t even have names yet, but the largest galaxy by far that we

 know of is the IC 1101 galaxy.

 The IC 1101 is over 50 times larger than the Milky Way and over 2,000 times more massive.

 The size of the IC 1011 is estimated at around 5.5 million light years, which is a number very few people are able to even comprehend.

 5.

 TON 618

 Black holes are some of the universe’s most eerie and terrifying objects.

 Black holes are those parts of the universe where gravity is extremely strong and nothing can escape from it, not even

 light, thus making a sort of hole in the middle of space.

 For the longest time, we didn’t even know what a black hole looked like until 2019 when the first ever photograph of a black hole was

 unveiled to us from the event horizon telescope.

 Black holes can vary greatly in size and intensity, but by far the largest black hole we know of is the TON 618, this black hole is located

 about 6.8 billion light years away from the earth, and it’s estimated to have a mass that’s 66

 billion times greater than that of the sun.

 4.

 Protocluster SPT2349-56 While most of the items on this list are things like galaxies and nebulas, or simply a collection of

 objects forming a larger object, the question remains, what’s the largest singular object in the

 universe?

 That answer might be the Protocluster SPT2349-56.

 The Protocluster SPT2349-56 is a huge piece of mass that is squeezed together and confined in a space that's around a few

 times larger than the Milky Way.

 In terms of mass, the Protocluster SPT2349-56 has a mass of

 around 10 trillion suns and further observations have shown that around 50 galaxies have surrounded themselves around this protocluster, and may soon begin to orbit the cluster itself.

 3.

 Laniakea Supercluster A supercluster is a grouping of many small and medium sized galaxies, such as the milky way

 itself, that go together to form a massive object.

 Superclusters are known to be some of the largest known objects in the universe, and the Milky Way is located within the Laniakea Supercluster, which is the single largest supercluster in the world.

 The Milky Way makes up just a small part of the Laniakea Supercluster, and it’s estimated that over 100,000 more galaxies

 are located within it.

 And the total mass is calculated at over a quadrillion times that of the sun.

 Yes, a quadrillion, not a billion or a trillion, but a quadrillion times.

 You probably can’t even imagine how big of an object that might be.

 2.

 Huge-LQG

 Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe.

 They’re supermassive objects that are powered by the force of black holes being surrounded by a gaseous accretion disk.

 Aside

 from being extremely bright, they’re also known for being extremely large, the black holes they

 surround are usually supermassive black holes, which are already billions of times the mass of

 the sun on their own, but Quasars can be even bigger than that.

 In fact, the single largest Quasar that we know of today is called the HUGE-LQG, and its size is estimated at being around 6.1 quintillion times the size of the sun.

 A quintillion is 1000 quadrillion, and a quadrillion is 1000 trillion, which is a unit you might be more familiar with.

 This is one space object that might not even have an end to it.

 1.

 Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall At this point in the list, we’ve gone through almost every type of the largest objects in space,

 from the largest exoplanet to the largest galaxy, but what is the largest thing in space overall?

 That would be the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall.

 The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall was first discovered by Hungarian and American observers in 2013, when they were studying far-away Gamma Bursts in the universe, they unexpectedly ended up discovering this massive structure.

 To try to understand the sheer size of this structure is simply an impossible task that’ll probably give you a headache, it’s size is estimated at being about 10 billion light

 years across, while its mass is still unknown.

 There is some doubt about this structure’s existence and size, but as far as science is concerned, this is the single largest structure in the

 known universe.

 That’s a wrap for 10 of the biggest objects in the universe!

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