PART I THE UNIVERSAL OCEAN

CHAPTER 2 THE KNOWN FACTS

LARGER STRUCTURES OF MATTER
Section 1

Planetary Systems

The Earth
The Solar System

Star Systems

The Milky Way
The Local Group
Clusters

Large Scale Structures

Superclusters
The Universe

PLANETARY SYSTEMS

PLANETS

When Galileo turned his telescope on Jupiter, he could clearly see a moon of Jupiter circling the large planet. It then became to clear to him that the Moon revolved around the Earth like Jupiter's moon was revolved around it. Once Galileo realized that

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

When Galileo turned his telescope on Jupiter, he could clearly see a moon of Jupiter circling the large planet. It then became to clear to him that the Moon revolved around the Earth like Jupiter's moon was revolved around it. Once Galileo realized the planetary structure, the structure of the Solar System was a natural extension. Galileo became a proponent of the theory that the Sun was the center of the planets and that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
An important fact of the Solar System is that the atomic elements heavier than hydrogen that make up material of the planets in the Solar System are thought to be made from fusion processes in the center of stars.

STAR SYSTEMS

THE MILKY WAY

The last one hundred years, especially, has shown an astonishing level of progress in the understanding of the Universe. In the 1920's, it became generally realized that the Milky Way was a vast group of stars and that the stellar nubulea were also vast groups of stars, called galaxies. The Milky Way, the galaxy in which the Sun resides, contains about a hundred billion stars. With the aid of the telescope, humans are able to see hundreds of billions of galaxies, each galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars.

THE LOCAL GROUP

The immense structures that galaxies are, the galaxies themselves form still larger structures, clusters of galaxies.
The cluster of galaxies in which the Milky Way resides is called the Local Group.

CLUSTERS

The immense structures that galaxies are, the galaxies themselves form still larger structures, clusters of galaxies.

SUPER CLUSTERS

The string of clusters of galaxies is called a supercluster.

THE GREAT WALL

The Great Wall was mapped by the researchers Geller and Huchra at Harvard, the CFA survey.
100's of billions of light years across.
An appreciable percentage of the Big Bang Universe.

GREAT VOIDS

Associated with the filamentary large structure is the great void left in between the filaments of matter. The great voids could be like high pressure zones where matter was displersing, not condensing.

AND GREATER STRUCTURES

There is every reason to suspect that as we obtain the ability to see at farther and farther into the depths of the Universe, that we will see larger and larger structures of matter, is because that has been our experience so far and continues to be so.