Why are stars so far apart?

Question

Is this God's way of saying "Mind you own business"?

Answer 1

This is a huge question with no short answer. the universe is huge. Galaxies developed as perturbations in the spread of matter in the universe, after the big bang. As the universe has expanded, the galaxies have drifted further and further apart. Within each galaxy, as they have developed, stars are born and they die. Astrophysics comes into play in describing through galactic dynamics, how these processes work, including the perturbations within the galaxies, like those within the universe, in forming galaxies and then stars. That's as much as I will give you, since anymore begins to get very detailed and analytical, using higher math.

Answer 2

They are not so far apart, they are just the right distance apart. The force of gravity that each has (which is why planets orbit around them) would cause all sorts of havoc if they were too close together for one thing - stars colliding. For another, one star heats up a planet. If we had more than one heating us up, we would not survive! Think about that, crispy critters. I like seeing the stars as they are, at a safe distance. One very close star, the sun, is enough for me. I think it has nothing to do with God saying to mind our own business, it is a balancing act instead.

Answer 3

Erm..

Actually, stars aren't far apart at all. Stars are very close together it just appears that they are far apart because some burn brighter than others which makes it easier to see the brighter ones (which appear far apart) on a clear night.


Also, most stars that we really notice are just the patterns like Orions Belt, The Lion, Big and Little Dipper, ect. And those are spaced to what seems like being far apart but in a reality there are several smaller and dimmer stars between each noticeable one.

Answer 4

Uh.... I donno They were just put that way. If you think about it they're not that far apart. A large star an be about 100 times the size of the sun, the sun is hundreds of times bigger than the earth, so that means they are really really huge. So, the universe infanit, so i guess they just pushed away and got their own little spots after they formed.....
Yeah, that's what I remember from earth science.


Oh... So the smaller stars imbetween have lower luminosities, therefor can't be seen from earth. But then again, It's not like they were layed out in a specific order or anything.

Answer 5

In astronomical terms they're not that far apart. But yeah, they need room. It's also because galaxies and stars what whathaveyou are all moving apart as we speak. Our own galaxy is moving at about 75 km/s. So eventually they do just spread apart. But that is a really good question.

Answer 6

Stars condense out of clouds of hydrogen. If you look at the density of the typical galactic gas cloud you'll see that it takes a huge cloud to make a star. Also, we're out in the galaxy's suburbs. Stars are much more closely packed in globular clusters and near the center of the galaxy.

Answer 7

First off, it's not that the distance between stars is so huge, it' s that humans are so minuscule that we perceive the distance as so huge.
Is this God's way of saying "all our mental masturbation is meaningless. give it up and get on with living your life"

Answer 8

Well, in the R-rated movies, the stars get pretty close sometimes. You know what I mean?

Answer 9

Intelligent design of course. It is like the union of hundreds of parts in a pocket watch, they are exactly where they need to be so that you can know what time it is.

Answer 10

no, JESUS invites you to have a sip of wine with HIM, perhaps it will relax you for when GOD the FATHER invites you to " let er' rip " intellectually.
be sure, some stars lie huge distances from one another. no doubt in my mind!