D3512N's Interesting and Massive, or Never-ending, Dangerous Sizes. Do not self remix ____________________________________________ Finally after going through some 20 orders of magnitude we arrive at the Milky Way Galaxy, our galactic home address. It's home to some 200 billion stars. The disc of the Milky Way has a diameter of roughly 100,000 light years across or 946,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters (946 quintillion or about 9.46E+20). The Milky Way is a sextillion meters across! At this point however such numbers have little meaning. Even our little demonstration can't really help us fully grasp it's size because we can't remember enough of the comparisons simultaneously to bring it down to earth. Even Omega Centauri is now a tiny point of light ... but remember even that is a huge cosmic object of a million stars. Going back to Omega Centauri ... The Cat's Eye Nebula is already too small to be seen... going back to the Cat's Eye Nebula even Betelgeuse is too small to see ... going to Betelgeuse our own star is a tiny point of light and going back to the sun, Ceres is way too tiny to make out, and going back to Ceres, Khalifa the worlds tallest skyscraper is too tiny to actually see ... and if we were to actually be before that huge tower it alone would blow our minds!!! Even in this summarized form there still is too many levels to keep straight in your head simultaneously. So much for having any hope of comprehending the size of a galaxy ... and yet we aren't done ... o_0;
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