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INFJ_GenX t1_j0ul5yw wrote

What fascinates me is that our sun is traveling through the universe something like 70,000 km per hour (43,496 miles per hour), how can we see what's ahead of us if we're traveling that quickly, but I also know the Sun protects us in its heliosphere... but still, how do we know that the path ahead of us isn't some destroyed rogue planet debris or other asteroid debris field?

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ffwiffo t1_j0w695p wrote

those are inter-stellar objects and very rare compared to the rest of the stuff locked in the Sun's orbit (we've found two - Oumuamua and comet 2I/Borizov).

https://www.space.com/astronomers-expect-more-interstellar-objects.html

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INFJ_GenX t1_j0whxma wrote

Awesome! Thank you.

I think the universe is fascinating... it's kind of hard to wrap my head around that it's infinite too. (according to quantum physics models, I believe).

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INFJ_GenX t1_j0umlsw wrote

Oh you're talking about it on a micro level, I was thinking of a macro level, sorry I read your blog.

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