[lbo-talk] Astronomical amounts vs. economical amounts

Les Schaffer schaffer at optonline.net
Wed Sep 30 10:17:02 PDT 2009


RicardoStarkey at aol.com wrote:
>
> *Our galaxy* itself contains a hundred billion stars.
> It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.

there is a nice set of images recently released that gives an in-depth zoomable look at the Milky Way:

http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/W.html

http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/about.html

Les



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