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Lightyears (talk | contribs) (Thanks for the corrections. Bit of editing as conciseness and hard choices of points/quotes to include are necessary in such an already very long but important article. Citations for the most uncontroversial, easily verifiable things like death dates can be omitted. Couple of removals (adornment point would be countered due to space telescope images admired by many people; final resting place interpretation is first attributed to Qatadah b. Di'amah b. 680 CE).) |
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Stars are also an average 5 light years away from each other in our galaxy<ref>[https://public.nrao.edu/ask/what-is-the-average-distance-between-stars-in-our-galaxy/ What is the Average Distance Between Stars in our Galaxy?] - US National Radio Astronomy Observatory website</ref>. For context, a light year is the distance light travels in one year, which at 186,000 miles/300,000 kilometres per second equals 5.88 trillion miles/9.46 trillion kilometres.<ref>https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/what-is-a-light-year/</ref> This makes them an odd choice for a protection/guard, with trillions of miles/kilometers of mostly empty space between them. | Stars are also an average 5 light years away from each other in our galaxy<ref>[https://public.nrao.edu/ask/what-is-the-average-distance-between-stars-in-our-galaxy/ What is the Average Distance Between Stars in our Galaxy?] - US National Radio Astronomy Observatory website</ref>. For context, a light year is the distance light travels in one year, which at 186,000 miles/300,000 kilometres per second equals 5.88 trillion miles/9.46 trillion kilometres.<ref>https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/what-is-a-light-year/</ref> This makes them an odd choice for a protection/guard, with trillions of miles/kilometers of mostly empty space between them. | ||
On a separate note, though stars are being described as an ornament or beauty for the sky in Quran [https://quranx.com/37.6 37:60], [https://quranx.com/67.5 67:5], there are an estimated minimum c.100 septillion stars in the known universe<ref>[https://universe.nasa.gov/stars/basics/#:~:text=Astronomers%20estimate%20that%20the%20universe,%2Dstudied%20star%2C%20the%20Sun. https://universe.nasa.gov/stars/basics/#:~:text=Astronomers%20estimate%20that%20the%20universe,%2Dstudied%20star%2C%20the%20Sun.]</ref>, but only a few thousand are actually visible to us.<ref>https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe</ref> | |||
===The entire heaven has a night and day=== | ===The entire heaven has a night and day=== | ||