Each dot is a galaxy. (There are about 100,000 in that picture.)
Each galaxy represents an average of 100 billion stars.
That is a shit ton of potential M class worlds.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
I'm still thinking there's some bacteria, right now, living under the surface of Mars or Titan.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"Whoa" happens when we figure out a way to traverse vast amounts of space in shorter amounts of times.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Our Milky Way galaxy is approximately 50 percent larger than what common estimates once were
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“What we see now is that this apparent ring is actually a ripple in the disk. And it may well be that there are more ripples further out which we have not yet seen,” Xu continued.
50% at least.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."