Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to space, how truly far space goes, or what created such a big thing? I’m sure we have all wondered what it is like to be able to walk on the moon, or look at the Earth from the moon’s perspective. In this article, you will learn interesting facts about space, and even find out how or what caused space to even be a thing! Let’s get right into how space was developed, or otherwise known as, how it was created.

          A long time ago, roughly about 13.8 billion years ago, the universe snapped into reality. It started as an insanely hot dense singularity, which turned into various amounts of constantly expanding cosmos that us humans still study and observe to this day. With this being the base of the topic, known as The Big Bang, rather than just distributing matter into a void, it generated not only space, but time and energy itself. What took place after the constant expanding of the early cosmos, was the cooling plasma that allowed for primordial nucleosynthesis, which soon created primary particles that then combined into hydrogen and helium. Throughout millions of years. The gravitational attraction took action on all of these gas type clouds which caused them to condense and ignite; culminating in the formation of the first generation of the stars and galaxies we know of today. From studying and tracing out the evolution from the time of the early cosmic “soup”, to the structured celestial bodies of the present, we uncover the story of our universe’s origin. This origin is a story by which we are all surprisingly made of… the stuff that originally came from stars. The big bang is mostly known as a huge explosion that took action in space, but it isn’t. The Big Bang was not actually a ‘bang’ or ‘explosion.’ Instead, what it originally was was it originated from a tiny, dense point that continuously expanded outwards, kind of similar to stretching out a balloon! That tiny little dense point at the beginning, is what made space itself. If you ever wonder how truly long space’s diameter is, it is huge. For example, our galaxy, otherwise known as The ‘Milky Way’, is estimated to be 100,000 to 200,000 years in diameter. It contains 100-400 billion stars, with our solar system being around 26,000 lightyears away from the center of the galaxy. Other wise, for space, space is 93 billion lightyears in diameter, which contains roughly around 2 trillion galaxies. With space constantly growing and expanding, it truly is unknown how big space truly is.