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To: SunkenCiv

My math skills may be rough, but if (1) the spherical dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 has a radius of only 80 light-years, and (2) yet contains 200 million suns, that seems to indicate (3) that on average you will find one star in each 100,000 cubic miles (NOT light years, MILES) of space in this galaxy. At that rate, the interstellar distances would be comparable to the asteroid belt’s objects.

Too nutty to be right. Can someone else check these assumptions?


6 posted on 10/05/2013 9:46:18 PM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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To: earglasses
I did a rough calculation of with a 80 light year radius. Dividing that volume over 200M stars, I come up with one star per cube with a side of 1.3 trillion miles.

Although insignificant in galactic scale, 80 light years is quite a volume. I rounded a light year to 6 trillion miles.

7 posted on 10/05/2013 11:24:52 PM PDT by sand88
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