The Scale of the Universe
The book emphasizes the vastness of the universe and how our solar system is just a tiny speck within it. It introduces concepts like the age of the universe (about 13.8 billion years), the unimaginable distances between celestial bodies, and the smallness of Earth in the cosmic context.
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