taurus25:

why is it so rare to get this view of the night sky around this part of the world........An abosolute beauty

hahn:
It was created by god

hahn:
It was created by god

hahn:
It was created by god

SirWere:


Err the article I read said Dark Matter makes up this "voids" and Dark matter bends light so........

Sunofgod:
This is all bullllllsshhhhhiittt.....stop falling for the white mans unverifiable sciences and CGI!

Please research 'flat earth' - NASA specializes in hoaxes.

Everyone has been miseducated - its time to wake up.

johnydon22:
1 out of billions

[s]Yeah that is correct, Our milky way galaxy is not the only galaxy there is but 1 galaxy out of more than 200billion galaxies in the observable universe.

That is like 1 grain of sand in a whole desert.[/s]

Long before humans never knew our galaxy was not alone, we thought we were and science hypothesized about other galaxies they called it Island universes

Not until in the early 1900s did a young Astronomer Edwin Hubble (Hubble telescope named after him) confirmed using the Mount Wilson that a distant nebulae was indeed an island universe (Distinct galaxy from ours) this nebulae is known now as the Andromeda galaxy More than 2million light years away.

thus humanity found out our galaxy wasn't the only one and now we find the number of galaxies not only reach up to 10 or 100 but billions of these gigantic monsters.



This image is a hubble deep field image, achieved when the hubble telescope is faced at one blank dark part of space for days or weeks, the result shows massive numerous distant galaxies.


every dot of light in this image is an individual galaxy, there are more 10,000 in this one image alone

bulldoza:
This is fallacy Stop exaggerating

dolphinheart:
@ johnydon22

pls what's the pillar(s)of creation. is it a galaxy, part of a galaxy or just another thing in space.

Sunofgod:
This is all bullllllsshhhhhiittt.....stop falling for the white mans unverifiable sciences and CGI!

Please research 'flat earth' - NASA specializes in hoaxes.

Everyone has been miseducated - its time to wake up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qFb4Zi1bo&t=8768s[/img]

johnydon22:
It has up to 200 billion stars

As galaxies go, the Milky Way is a middleweight. The largest galaxy we
know of, which is the monsterous IC 1101 , has over 100 trillion stars, and other
large galaxies can have as many as a trillion.

Dwarf galaxies such as the aforementioned Large Magellanic Cloud have about 10 billion stars.

The Milky Way has between 100-400 billion stars; but when you look up into
the night sky, the most you can see from any one point on the globe is
about 2,500.

This number is not fixed, however, because the Milky Way is
constantly losing stars through supernovae, and producing new ones all the
time

johnydon22:
Have you ever looked up in the night sky seeing the stars littered all over, small twinkling lights far far away.

These stars are so far away from each other that it takes years for light to travel between them.

All the stars you see at night are part of the milky way galaxy, even you yourself, the sun, planets.

So when ever you are looking at the night sky, the sun, moon, planets, other things or people around you, You are indirectly looking at the Milky Way Galaxy..

What is a galaxy?

A galaxy is a cluster of stars, clouds, dust, planets, dark matters all held
together by the reaching arms of gravity....

Read more about galaxies here ==> Galaxies



Now let us run through Facts about our own Home Galaxy the milky way galaxy ..

Sources (Picture credits): Nasa.gov
www.universetoday.com
twitter: @Hubble_telescope

SirWere:
Twinkle Twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the sky so high


Like a Dia- oh sh!t it's a galaxy





One question though; what do you call the space between galaxies

sagacious2016:


Nope. The stars visible to the eyes on a clear night is the beautiful Andromeda galaxy that is very close to us.

chidozy15:

If you replace stars with naira you could be reporting on money stolen by politicians in Nigeria

DrayZee:

Dark Matter.

johnydon22:

the andromeda is 1 out of all the visible lights in our night sky and not even always visible, its only visible that time of the year when the constellation Andromeda comes up.

Andromeda is not really close 2million light years away, it a big galaxy with almost a trillion stars thats why from that distance it is bright enough to be seen as a dot of light from earth.

The stars you see at night are neighbouring suns in their own systems the closest being the alpha centauri