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EXERCISE 8
EXERCISE 8 What's the mass density of the observable universe? Express your answer in units of kg/m^3, and in units of hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. Along with the information in the text, The following pieces of information may be helpful: - The observable universe is approximately a sphere with a radius of 13 billion light-years. - One parsec is 3.3 light-years; one parsec is also 3.1 * 10^16 m - The volume of a sphere is (4/3) * pi * r^3 - The average galaxy in the universe has about fifteen percent (15%) the mass of the Milky Way galaxy. - Including dark matter, the average galaxy contains a total mass about ten times that of the mass of all its stars put together. - The Milky Way galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, one of which is the Sun. - The mass of the Sun is about 2.0 * 10^30 kg. The mass of a proton is about 1.67 * 10^(-27) kg. |