The Mind-Blowing Vastness of Space

🎙️ Script: “How Big is Space — And Why It’s Mind-Blowing” Hook (0-5 s): “Imagine a place

so vast that if you drove your car at 100 km h⁻¹ for a million years… you’d still not

leave it.” Body (5-45 s): “Space isn’t just big. It’s bigger than

we can easily grasp. Our home, the Milky Way galaxy, is about 100 000 light-years wide

— that’s 946 trillion km for every light-year. Now imagine billions of other galaxies, each one with billions

of stars. In one of those, maybe someone looks up and wonders about us.

Light itself takes 2.5 million years to travel from the nearest major galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy,

to us. And the universe keeps expanding. Every second, space stretches—making