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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:43 pm
by Leisher
A very, very small section of the universe around the Milky Way.
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:32 pm
by Malcolm
I'm still thinking there's some bacteria, right now, living under the surface of Mars or Titan.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:58 pm
by TheCatt
To quote Keanu Reeves: "Whoa"
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:13 pm
by Malcolm
"Whoa" happens when we figure out a way to traverse vast amounts of space in shorter amounts of times.
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:34 pm
by Malcolm
Scientists slightly off about size of Milky Way.
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:02 pm
by GORDON
Yeah but there was a consensus.
