Distant Galexy ?
Distant Galexy ?
Somebody please explain this to me.The Milky Way is 100k light years across.Our neighbor ,Adromeda is 200k light years across. With Adromeda being only 2 and 1/2 light years from us it has proven hard to imagine these figures to all be somewhat correct. If you stack these two very large bodys together, then seperate them by only 2 and 1/2 light years ,it seems that Adromeda would/ should be far more dominate in our sky.How close would one be for Adromeda at 200 LY across for that view to domionate our night sky?
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Re: Distant Galexy ?
Andromeda is 141 ± 3 kly widerdhutson wrote:Somebody please explain this to me.The Milky Way is 100k light years across.Our neighbor ,Andromeda is 200k light years across. With Adromeda being only 2 and 1/2 light years from us it has proven hard to imagine these figures to all be somewhat correct. If you stack these two very large bodys together, then seperate them by only 2 and 1/2 light years ,it seems that Adromeda would/ should be far more dominate in our sky.How close would one be for Adromeda at 200 LY across for that view to domionate our night sky?
and 2,540 ± 60 kly distant.
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Re: Distant Galexy ?
Andromeda is 2 and 1/2 Million light years away
Re: Distant Galexy ?
Two million, five hundred and forty thousand kly((kly being the distance that light travels in a thousand year period))is two thousand, five hundred and forty, times one thousand, which equals two million five hundred and forty thousand, give or take 60 kly, which is sixty times one thousand, which equals 60,000 light years. Therefore, Andromeda is between two million four hundred and eighty thousand light years away and three million light years away.
Isn't 2540 +/- 60kly distant easier to say? YES, it is, but not as much fun as trying to keep the words straight!
And speaking of words -- Who spelled Galaxy -->Galexy??
Isn't 2540 +/- 60kly distant easier to say? YES, it is, but not as much fun as trying to keep the words straight!
And speaking of words -- Who spelled Galaxy -->Galexy??
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Re: Distant Galaxy ?
I don't know that it's easier to say, you would say it the same. It is easier to write.Beyond wrote:Isn't 2540 +/- 60kly distant easier to say?
And you didn't succeed! You started on the wrong foot.not as much fun as trying to keep the words straight!
Should beTwo million, five hundred and forty thousand kly
Two million, five hundred forty thousand ly
or
Two thousand, five hundred forty kly
Note: and indicates a decimal point, e.g. 2.54 is two and fifty four hundredths.
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alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
Re: Distant Galexy ?
THAT's why i said the the 'short' version is easier!
#1- I can't spel worth a darn.
#2- i can't tipe.
#3- covers all the 'missteaks' that come from #'s 1 & 2.
#4- Well, at least i spelled Galaxy rite.
#1- I can't spel worth a darn.
#2- i can't tipe.
#3- covers all the 'missteaks' that come from #'s 1 & 2.
#4- Well, at least i spelled Galaxy rite.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.