http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/20/big.html
We are nothing! The Milky Way galaxy is 100 light years wide, that manes light would take 100 years to move from one end of the milky way to the other end. Light moves at 186,000 miles per second... damn! There are so many galaxies in this photo by the Hubble telescope it'd be impossible to count them. Lord!
See how many galaxies you can count
by dawg 16 Replies latest jw friends
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dawg
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poppers
Well, the Milky Way is certainly big, but it's even bigger than you think. It's not 100 light years in diameter, it's 100,000 light years in diameter.
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R.Crusoe
!86000x60x60x24x365 = how many km in 1 light year
approx 5870 000 000 000 km
and the volume of space in the sphere of light all around you from1light year is
approx half the above cubed!
So when the diameter goes up by a powr of 10
The volume goes up by approx 500
Which for 100 000 LY is quite a piece of space to look into!
Wouldn't you say?
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Satanus
Why did god do that (w apologies to theists)?
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SPAZnik
wow.
that there is the purdiest picture i've seen all day.
thx, dawg!
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fokyc
I have given up counting,
A recent Hubble Space Telescope image revealed that there may be over 50 billion galaxies or more in our visible universe.
Wow!
fokyc
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Sirona
I strongly believe that there is life out there.
What a beautiful picture!
Sirona
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LouBelle
WOW - that is so stunningly beautiful - I stopped at a 100.
And the amazing thing is that we find galaxies in clusters (like grapes) and then you get clusters of clusters.
Sirona - when you look at something like that and compare how big (or rather how small) our earth is - you have to believe there is something more out there - how can we be the only intellengent species in all of that?
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poppers
!86000x60x60x24x365 = how many km in 1 light year approx 5870 000 000 000 km
You've got the math right but the label wrong - it's miles not kilometers, which is considerably more than km.