Why not just create stars and have stars and their planets floating around in space, each

stellar system unto itself? Why does the universe bother to create galaxies? It turns out that
galaxies are a very efficient way to form stars. This is especially the case for the flattened
disk or spiral galaxies. In the later stages of their lives, stars shed their outer envelopes. This
material is mixed into the interstellar medium within galaxies and is used to form new
generations of stars. Over time a galaxy will evolve from having a smaller number of higher
mass stars with shorter lives to many long-lived stars of lower masses.

So one can say there are two ‘reasons’ why galaxies exist. The first reason is the
cosmological explanation. The canonical Big Bang model, including inflation, results in a
highly homogenous universe at early epochs. But within the uniform distribution of matter
there were tiny density perturbations, areas of excess density. Although the universe as a
whole has been expanding since its creation, these overdense regions collapsed ‘under their
own weight’. During the first few hundred million years of the universe’s lifetime, the first
stars and galaxies began to form.

The second ‘reason’ why galaxies exist is because we do. That is to say, people and life in
general require carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and many other elements necessary for
biochemistry. These are formed in stellar interiors through thermonuclear fusion. Advanced
life requires planets to live on, and stars to provide light and heat in support of life. Galaxies
are the natural homes for large collections of stars. They are recycling factories that allow
matter from old stars - enriched with higher levels of carbon, etc. - to be redistributed and
to form new generations of stars. Without this recycling process, our Sun and Solar System
would never have formed some 4.6 billion years ago. This process keeps galaxies active for
billions of years. Our own Milky Way galaxy is thought to have over 200 billion stars, some
larger than our Sun and many which are smaller.

So since we are here, galaxies needed to exist, at least our own Milky Way has to exist, as a
prerequisite for ourselves!

Excerpt From: “72 Beautiful Galaxies” first complete draft June 25, 2016, copyright 2016
Stephen Perrenod

1. 13 billion years ago an event know as The big bang occurred. No one knows
exactly what caused the big bang or why it did, how it did.
2. The consequence of big bang was a huge explosion of star dust every where,
which is expanding till now and will be expanding further.
3. Galaxies are formation of star dust, gasses which are held together with gravity
because of a super massive black hole in the center of it.
4. There are such billion of billions of galaxies scattered across the universe and it
is believed that each galaxy has a super massive black hole at the center which
holds the galaxy together with its enormous gravtional pull.
 5. Inside galaxies there are solar systems, like ours.
6. And each solar system is known by its star which can be thought of as minute
galaxy, like our Sun which is the center of our solar system.
7. And there are again billions of solar systems to be believed exist in each and
every galaxy.
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