1. Our Place in Allah’s
Universe
By jAveRia

2. The Distance
– 1 AU =150 million km
– Light takes 8.31 minutes from the Sun to reach us.
– AU = Astronomical Unit

3. The Distance
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Light Year =Distance
Light can travel in 1 Earth
Year
Speed of Light = 300,000
km /sec
1 Light Year =
9,500,000,000,000 km

4. Where are we?
 Where are we?
 D.HA
 Karachi
 Pakistan
 Earth…

6. Our Place in the Universe
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We will now look at our
place in the universe,
starting from our planet
Earth
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We will zoom out at an
ever increasing scale to
see our place in the
universe.
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The square box stating
“you are here” represents
our place & the previous
diagram

7. Diagram 1
Circumference:
40,075.16 km
12,756 km
Diameter

8. Longest Non Stop Flight
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Newark to Singapore
16,600 km (10,314 m)
Time: 18:40 by
Airbus A340-500
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Speed: (885 km/h, 550 mph)
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11. Size Comparison Planets

13. Size Comparison: Planets

14. Size Comparison: Sun & Planets

16. 4.21 Light years

17. .

21. Local Portion of our Galaxy

22. Milky Way Galaxy

23. Travel to Centre
Traveling at the
Speed of Light, it will
take 28,000 years to
reach the centre of
our galaxy.

24. Panoramic View of Milky Way from
Earth

25. Neighboring Galaxies

26. How far is Andromeda?
23 inch TV
.
Imagine the Milky Way
as a penny
Milky Way = a penny
1 inch = 100,000 Ly
23
In
ch
es
Aw
ay
Solar System – speck of
dust on the penny
Andromeda
Imagine a 23 inch TV
Andromeda will be 23
inches away

27. Super clusters : Groups of Galaxies

28. How far is Virgo Cluster?
60 Million LY
•The Virgo Cluster of
Galaxies is about 60
million light years or 600
inches away
•Imagine a tall building,
more than five stories
high (50 feet / 15 m)
•Place the TV, with the
coins on top of building.

29. .
1.5 billion Ly
away

30. 1.5 Billion LY Away
 Imagine you are 1.5 Billion Light Years
away from Earth…
 You turn back and try to look at earth
 How far will it be?
 Have you seen the tallest building?

31. MCB Building: Karachi
MCB Tower: 116 m

32. 116 m
MCB

33. 1.5 Billion LY Away – How Far?
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Stack 7 Sears Towers
on top of each other
Place the TV on the
top
Look at the coin from
below…that’s where
our home galaxy is,
3800 m away…
That’s 1.5 Billion LY
away

34. Edge of Universe?
 Travel further out…
 You were 1.5 Billion LY Away
 Edge of Universe: Fifteen Billion LY

35. Allah’s Universe
 Can a universe so orderly, so vast be
created by Chance?
 Do you still believe that the Universe
formed it self and that it has no creator?

36. Allah’s Universe
Surah Al Baqarah
2: 117
“The Originator of the heavens and the
Earth! When He decreeth a thing,He said
unto it only : Be! And it is.”

37. Prepared by jAveRia

38. Our Neighbors
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Proxima Centauri – Our nearest Star
– 40,000,000,000,000 km away
– 4.21 Light Years away
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Andromeda – Nearest Galaxy
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21 quintillion km away from us
i.e. 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 km
2.3 million light years away
The Milky Way Galaxy is about 150,000 light-years
across
It takes light from the sun 8.31 minutes to reach earth