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What is our universe called?

Our universe is also called the cosmos. It is originally a greek word. In early days it was thought that our Galaxy constituted the entire universe.
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What are the 3 types of universe?

These are:
  • A flat universe with zero curvature.
  • An open universe with a curvature that does not curve back on itself.
  • A closed universe with a curvature that folds back on itself like a saddle.
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What universe is Earth in?

Well, Earth is located in the universe in the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. A supercluster is a group of galaxies held together by gravity. Within this supercluster we are in a smaller group of galaxies called the Local Group. Earth is in the second largest galaxy of the Local Group - a galaxy called the Milky Way.
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What type of universe do we live in?

Most astronomers believe that we live in a low-density Universe in which a mysterious substance known as 'dark energy' accounts for 70% of its content, and therefore, pervades everything.
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Do we live in a multiverse?

Our universe is but one in an unimaginably massive ocean of universes called … the multiverse. If that concept isn't enough to get your head around, physics describes different kinds of multiverse. The easiest one to comprehend is called the cosmological multiverse.
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What is a galaxy vs universe?

A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. The Universe consists of billions of galaxies. For example, The Milky Way Galaxy is just one galaxy in the Universe.
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Is Earth 33 our Earth?

Notes. Creator Grant Morrison once stated that Earth 33 is "our real world". Earth 33 is based on the Pre-Flashpoint concept of Earth-Prime: an Earth where superheroes only exist in comic books and do not appear in real life. The Multiversity Guidebook confirmed Superboy Prime as an inhabitant of Earth 33.
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Who created dark matter?

The term dark matter was coined in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology to describe the unseen matter that must dominate one feature of the universe—the Coma Galaxy Cluster.
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What is bigger than universe?

No, the universe contains all solar systems, and galaxies. Our Sun is just one star among the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, and the universe is made up of all the galaxies – billions of them.
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What created the universe?

Our universe began with an explosion of space itself - the Big Bang. Starting from extremely high density and temperature, space expanded, the universe cooled, and the simplest elements formed. Gravity gradually drew matter together to form the first stars and the first galaxies.
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How many universes exist?

We currently have no evidence that multiverses exists, and everything we can see suggests there is just one universe — our own.
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How many universes are found?

There is only one Universe we currently know of, and that is the Universe in which we already live. The existence of other Universes certainly seems possible; however, we are still on the process of studying our own before hunting for others.
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How many galaxies are there?

One such estimate says that there are between 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Other astronomers have tried to estimate the number of 'missed' galaxies in previous studies and come up with a total number of 2 trillion galaxies in the universe.
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Is space infinite?

Because space isn't curved they will never meet or drift away from each other. A flat universe could be infinite: imagine a 2D piece of paper that stretches out forever. But it could also be finite: imagine taking a piece of paper, making a cylinder and joining the ends to make a torus (doughnut) shape.
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Is God bigger than the universe?

Dear R.R.: Although I know it is very hard for you to imagine, God is bigger than the universe - and one reason is because He created the universe. As the Bible says, ``In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' (Genesis 1:1).
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Can you touch dark matter?

In fact, recent estimates put dark matter as five times more common than regular matter in our universe. But because dark matter does not interact electromagnetically, we can't touch it, see it, or manipulate it using conventional means.
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Is dark matter the God?

The Higgs boson is the God particle. It is an elementary particle in the Higgs field. It is found in the Higgs field. Dark matter is not the same as the Higgs boson.
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How long will the universe exist?

22 billion years in the future is the earliest possible end of the Universe in the Big Rip scenario, assuming a model of dark energy with w = −1.5. False vacuum decay may occur in 20 to 30 billion years if the Higgs field is metastable.
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What is Earths real name?

It is a common misconception that “Terra” is the internationally-recognized scientific name of the planet, but in reality Earth does not have an official international name. The standard English name of the planet, including in science, is “Earth”.
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Is Earth-1 the only Earth left?

The comic ended with the multiverse being completely wiped out of existence. Once the dust settled, there was only one Earth left standing (at least until 2005's Infinite Crisis finally restored the DC multiverse). But in the TV version, the multiverse was restored shortly after Earth-Prime came into being.
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Is Earth 15 a dead Earth?

Earth-15 was one of the many universes in the original multiverse. For unspecified reasons in 1986, its Earth was destroyed and considered a "dead Earth".
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What is bigger than galaxy?

From largest to smallest they are: Universe, galaxy, solar system, star, planet, moon and asteroid.
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What is beyond our universe?

The trite answer is that both space and time were created at the big bang about 14 billion years ago, so there is nothing beyond the universe. However, much of the universe exists beyond the observable universe, which is maybe about 90 billion light years across.
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Is a universe a star?

The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.
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How will time End?

The universe will get smaller and smaller, galaxies will collide with each other, and all the matter in the universe will be scrunched up together. When the universe will once again be squeezed into an infinitely small space, time will end.
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