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[Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Jay Strader (Michigan St. Univ.) et al.]

1 posted on 10/05/2013 6:46:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

My math skills may be rough, but if (1) the spherical dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 has a radius of only 80 light-years, and (2) yet contains 200 million suns, that seems to indicate (3) that on average you will find one star in each 100,000 cubic miles (NOT light years, MILES) of space in this galaxy. At that rate, the interstellar distances would be comparable to the asteroid belt’s objects.

Too nutty to be right. Can someone else check these assumptions?


6 posted on 10/05/2013 9:46:18 PM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes, but is it denser than the democrat party?


9 posted on 10/06/2013 10:15:35 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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