The physical boundaries of the local universes
are not easily identified, although the major and minor sectors of Orvonton
are clearly distinguishable. What separates one local universe from
all others is the presence of a local universe Creative Mother Spirit.
Nebadon sprang from Andronover and other
nebulae. Today it travels in an increasingly settled orbit around the
Sagittarius center of our minor sector. Our system of Satania is one
of one hundred systems in the constellation Norlatiadek.
There are more than two thousand suns
in Satania. Suns serve as way stations for concentrating the energy
circuits of the material creations. Some larger suns may break up or
split into double stars. Some are solid, especially the older ones,
and their density may be so great that one square inch weighs three
tons. Urantia's gaseous sun has a density of about one and a half times
that of water.
Suns generate light and x‑rays.
Light is real; it can be highly explosive. Energy, including light,
moves through space in straight lines and is responsive to other forces
and energies. Large suns maintain such gravity control over their electrons
that light escapes only with the aid of powerful x-rays. These rays
penetrate all of space, and contribute to the maintenance of ultimatonic
energy associations. Atoms and electrons are subject to physical gravity,
but ultimatons are obedient only to Paradise gravity.
Our sun's surface temperature is about
six thousand degrees Fahrenheit; the interior temperature can approach
thirty-five million degrees. Sources of this enormous energy include
annihilation of atoms, transmutation of elements, accumulation of space
energies, and solar contractions. A regulating blanket of hot gases
envelops the sun and acts to stabilize solar heat loss. The heat given
out by the sun each second is enough to boil all the water in all of
Urantia's oceans, instantly.
Earth's sun is six billion years old and
will continue to function in its present state of efficiency for another
twenty-five billion years. It currently radiates almost one hundred
billion tons of matter annually.