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To: Red Badger
So, there must be millions, if not billions of galaxies out there we’ve never seen...

Recent reliable estimates of the total number of galaxies in the portion of our universe that is observable are in the range of hundreds of billions of galaxies, averaging roughly two hundred billion stars per galaxy.

17 posted on 06/03/2014 1:33:32 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Recent reliable estimates of the total number of galaxies in the portion of our universe that is observable are in the range of hundreds of billions of galaxies, averaging roughly two hundred billion stars per galaxy.

I dunno.... Kinda find that hard to believe. Especially that "reliable estimate" part.....

48 posted on 06/03/2014 2:58:21 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

The Galaxy Song
Monty Python

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ‘round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.


61 posted on 06/03/2014 5:33:53 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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