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To: MtnClimber

Keep in mind, ONE light year, the DISTANCE light travels in a year at its speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles. That’s 5.9 thousand - times a billion - miles.

From wiki...

“The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way. The Local Group comprises more than 54 galaxies, most of them dwarf galaxies. Its gravitational center is located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. The Local Group covers a diameter of 10 Mly [10 million light years] and has a binary (dumbbell)[1] distribution. The group itself is a part of the larger Virgo Supercluster, which in turn may be a part of the Laniakea Supercluster.

The three largest members of the group (in descending order) are the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way[2] and the Triangulum Galaxy. The larger two of these spiral galaxies each have their own system of satellite galaxies.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group


29 posted on 08/25/2016 8:21:06 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...ASAP)
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To: ETL

And all that means that we’ve left the super-duper “Frying Pan” cluster of galaxies and are headed into the “Fire” super duper cluster!.....:)


61 posted on 08/25/2016 10:19:00 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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