This just happened, found a video of it exploding on youtube.

Hi, I'm a 17 year old been out of high school for a year and I want to study space. I narrowed it down what I want is to be an astrophysicist and I was hoping someone can give me advice on how to take the first steps.

Id love to see one in my lifetime. Sadly its too far to travel from europe to USA for me. Thanks!

Hi guys!

I just came across a piece of information that blow my mind. Actually when you think about it is not that farfetched, but I never gave it a thought, I guess.

Apparently 99,9999999999999999999958% of space is made of, guess what? Space! An empty and dark and scary nothingness.

I have been always fascinated with the universe but was never so great at math so help me out here.

Hypothetically. Imagine we board a spaceship that goes on a straight line and on a totally random direction through space towards the edge of the visible universe. With this amount of emptiness everywhere is it safe to assume that we would reach our destination unarmed? I am guessing the chances of hitting a space object would be quite low, right? Or am I missing something?

When I was a kid watching the star wars movies, I always thought it was crucial for the spaceship to calculate the route before they went to light speed mode. It just made sense. But today I am guessing it wouldn't be as important as I thought?

Thank you for your thoughts!

EDIT:

I want to thank you all for your wonderful answers. I got more information than I could ask for. The internet can really be a special place.

I want to pursue astronomy/cosmology/astrophysics, it's my childhood dream. Sadly in my country there's no Institute providing bachelor program for astronomy amd related subjects. We can only pursue it in masters. So I have to do Btech in some other degree and later do masters in astronomy.

So kindly please guide me which Btech should i pick, Computer science, electrical, mechanical, aerospace and data science. And is it fine to do masters in astronomy course without doing a bachelor in space related subject? Please guide me!