The universe is a crazy place. In fact, it's probably the craziest place you've ever been.
It's full of exploding stars andimmortal jellyfish and it's been kicking around for almost 14 billion years.
Here are 14 awesome facts to put it all into perspective.
If you unraveled all of the DNA in your body, it would span 34 billion miles, reaching to Pluto (2.66 billion miles away) and back ... six times.
Source: Business Insider
Almost all of ordinary matter (99.9999999% of it) is empty space. If you took out all of the space in our atoms, the entire human race (all 7 billion of us) would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
Uwe Hermann
Source: Symmetry
Many of the atoms you're made of, from the calcium in your bones to the iron in your blood, were brewed up in the heart of an exploding star billions of years ago.
Source: PBS
In fact, your body contains cosmic relics from the creation of the universe. Almost all of your hydrogen atoms were formed in the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago.
Source: PBS
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