The most powerful thing in our neck of the universe: the Sun.
The above NASA photo is “a detailed image of the Sun’s corona taken during the 2008 August total solar eclipse from Mongolia.”
How’s this for a blow-your-mind fact: The Sun is so large 130 Earths could fit inside it.
No, not really. Not unless you add a few zeros. Over one million Earths could fit inside the sun. Roughly 1.3. [source]
As for energy output, while the Fat Man atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II generated roughly 8.78×10 to the 13th joules of energy, each and every second the Sun puts out roughly 3.86×10 to the 26th joules. [source]
That’s 87,800,000,000
versus 386,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Every second!
The photo and those facts are just about enough to make my hair stand on end.
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