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To: Red Badger

An astronomer was once asked how many galaxies were out there. He said, think of it this way……draw a bubble bath. Every single bubble is a galaxy. It really put it into perspective for me.


4 posted on 07/14/2025 7:16:42 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Puppage

Take a peek at images like this:
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/15000-galaxies-in-one-image/

If you download prepare for an enormous file, like Gbytes. Open up something like Gimp and scroll the file. As you go IN more and more, more&more galaxies appear.
Soap bubbles don’t do justice.


15 posted on 07/14/2025 8:52:21 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Puppage
Some estimates are that there could be one trillion galaxies in the universe (some larger than the Milky Way, some smaller). But if the Milky Way may have dozens of nearly invisible satellite galaxies, that could be true of many other galaxies too...so maybe they need to revise the upward limit for the possible number of galaxies in the universe.

That doesn't change the fact that the earth is the only planet with chocolate, or with the infield fly rule.

21 posted on 07/14/2025 9:54:00 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Puppage

I read somewhere the most distant observable galaxy, designated IC 1101, is comprised of an estimated 100 trillion stars and is 1 billion light years from here.


28 posted on 07/14/2025 6:14:40 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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