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    Just Thought You Would Want To Know

    The Milky Way galaxy is much bigger than we thought.

    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...y-thought.html

    Another interesting newly discovered fact is that “all disk galaxies rotate about once every billion years, no matter their size or mass.”

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-.../#.WwmPeYpOmhA

    At the creation of our observable universe - the Big Bang - matter was distributed apart at infinitely faster than the speed of light, which explains why our telescopes can look back in time as light from creation and evolution of distant objects can just now be observed as it “catches up” with us. Mind bending...

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw.../#521d8b3f3605
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    That was great astronomy, now maybe we can find life out there, maybe a few light year miles thro.
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    Disc or spiral galaxys, like everything on earth is put together according to the Fibonacci sequence. Even at one rev. per billion years would make the stars on the outside hauling book.

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    Damn! More places to visit added to my bucket list.
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    At the creation of our observable universe - the Big Bang - matter was distributed apart at infinitely faster than the speed of light, which explains why our telescopes can look back in time as light from creation and evolution of distant objects can just now be observed as it “catches up” with us. Mind bending...
    I finally understand! I've read that, been told that but I just never could get a hold of it, to many questions. But now I see, cool!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wannabe View Post
    Disc or spiral galaxys, like everything on earth is put together according to the Fibonacci sequence. Even at one rev. per billion years would make the stars on the outside hauling book.
    The Fibonacci Sequence does describe and predict a spiral, but does not explain globular galaxies. I have always wondered what can explain them, as I would theorize each should collapse into one massive black hole without the centrifugal force to counteract gravity effects. Another mystery of macro physics. Maybe Dark Matter - physicists’ standby MacGuffin - can be blamed?

    Know the time it takes to make a rotation and the dimensions of a spiral galaxy will yield the speed of any star on the farthest circumference. The larger the galaxy’s circumference, the farther those stars, thus the faster they would move to rotate the distance in the same realities time. I wonder how fast the outside stars are moving in the biggest galaxy known. If the known universe is 13.4 billion years old, as we are told, that means the oldest a galaxy can be is ~13.4 galaxy years old.
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    I just wish we could find some way to get along on our little planet. But astronomy is a wonderful hobby of mine. I've done a lot stargazing over the years.
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    13.4 billion years ago there was nothing then there was a galaxy and here we are. Mind boggling!
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