30 Facts About Space That Are Actually Mind-Blowing

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Everything you can see—stars, planets, galaxies, your phone, you—makes up less than 5% of the universe. Based on current cosmological models, about 68% of the universe is Dark energy and roughly 27% is Dark matter. Together, that’s around 95% of reality made of stuff we can’t directly see.

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully understood.