Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Physical Science, Space Science, Technology, Matter and Its Properties, Universe, Astronomy, Models
Type
Read About It
Model the composition of the universe using jelly beans in a jar, or use the picture as a visualization. Using this graphic, you can see that about 95% of the universe is dark matter and dark energy. Only about 4.6 % (the lighter colored jelly beans) of the universe — including the stars, planets and people — is made of familiar atomic matter.