When you leave Earth, and you keep going up, what's up there?

Question

If you dodge all other planets and stars and what not, and just keep going..do you just keep going????

Answer 1

When you leave Earth, no matter which way you go... and dodge everything, you will eventually stop from the friction caused by the Hydrogen atoms. However this precludes continuous acceleration.

Answer 2

As you will leave the earth these things will come in your way:
1st the clouds then the planets then may be asteroids then other planets then free dusts then Blackness will envelope you for sometime the you may reach other stars then perheps outside the milky way if you are alive! then if you are still alive you may again get surrounded by blackness then other galaxies then if you are still alive you will travel towards an infinite edge of the universe the distance of which will increase as your travel increases.
if you just keep on going like this parheps 1000time the speed of light you may reach out to the outer limit of the universe after about 65000 light years.Now you are at the end of this universe but still its edge is vast,if you travel again ath the speed of 876.87times the speed of light you will reach to the begining of the second universe where another creature of god which is more intelligent & more dangrous than Humans dwells.then what hapeens I will tell you later when you contact me at [e-mail].

Answer 3

Not much dodging involved, space is mostly empty....

...and if you're have trouble wrapping your head around infinity, welcome to the club. No one is sure what's ultimately out there because we've never been.

The currently accepted theory is that space is the 3 dimensional equivalent of being on the surface of an expanding sphere. That if you pick a direction and keep going you will eventually, more or less, come back to where you started from.

Now personally I think the 'you just keep going' theory is as good as any, and the whole expanding hyperspace bubble line is probably a bunch of academics trying to justify their research grants. ;-)

Answer 4

Once you escape the Earth's atmosphere traveling at roughly 18,000 Miles Per Hour you may travel in a straight line for almost 40 Billion Light Years. Scientists and astronomers have agreed that the fartherest "seeable" objects from Earth are about 40 Billion Light Years away from us in all directions. That is the present limit of our best optical and radio telescope equipment. There is a lot of empty space out there and thousands and thousands of other galaxies besides our own Milky Way Galaxy which contains at least 200 Billion stars, each of which might be the center of its own solar system. Each of those other galaxies also contains billions of stars with possible solar systems. So there is a lot out there, it is just spread out very thinly.

Answer 5

Yes, exactly. You go from interplanetary space and end up in interstellar space; the areas between the stars. Beyond that is intergalactic spaces, those even vaster regions between the galaxies.

Answer 6

"Up" is a relative term once you leave the confines of the earth!

If you can manage to travel in a straight line and not have any celestial body in your path, then I suppose you would go on forever -- nobody on this planet knows what lies out there...

Answer 7

either you would keep seeing planets and stars forever,or you would come to the edge of the universe and nobody knows what would happen

Answer 8

" It's not safe out there.The Universe is filled with wonders and marvels to satiate desires both subtle and gross.......but its not for the timid."

Q to Picard

When we finally build Star Fleet Academy or the equivalent THAT should be carved on the lintel above the main door

Answer 9

Maybe you left the Solar System, maybe you left Oort Cloud, but it guess there is such thing as barrier of the galaxy.

Answer 10

practical nothing space is a vacuum so there are no particles and stars are made of gas and fire fore each star there is a complete new solar system