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Amazing New Discoveries About The Milky Way


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2023 Feb 15, 9:43am   15,356 views  166 comments

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The Milky Way is no run-of-the-mill galaxy, according to a new study.

A team of astronomers recently discovered that our spiral-shaped home galaxy is actually too big for its surroundings, Science Alert reported.

The Milky Way is located in a “neighborhood” called the Local Sheet, which is a flat arrangement of galaxies that share similar velocities and are surrounded by empty space called voids.

The team explained that the Local Sheet serves as an example of a cosmological wall and separates the Local Void from the Southern Void. The relationship between the galaxies in the Local Sheet has a strong influence on their behavior, such as their similar velocities relative to the expansion of the Universe.

But the Milky Way appears to be an exception.

In their paper, researchers conducted an analysis using simulations from a project called IllustrisTNG, which models the physical Universe.

They found that, being a billion light years across and containing millions of galaxies, very few galaxies located within a cosmological wall structure are as big as the Milky Way.

The study underscores the importance of considering the local environment when studying our home galaxy, rather than assuming that it is in an average spot in the universe.

The environmental context could also help explain some previously unexplained phenomena, such as the odd arrangement of satellite galaxies around Andromeda and the peculiar lack of them around the Milky Way.

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162   PeopleUnited   2023 Jul 12, 4:17pm  

Rubicon says

bombard people with Bible verses. That’s the triggering part of it.

The Jewish religious leaders were triggered by Jesus’s words as well. So it is a pretty common reaction to the gospel. But if you find it so offensive you have to ask yourself why you can’t tolerate someone who nonviolently shares their faith. Insecure much?

Rubicon says

You are no different than other religious fanatics IMO

Painting with a broad brush padawan. Opinions are like assholes...
163   PeopleUnited   2023 Jul 12, 4:21pm  

richwicks says

This imaging was done in 1996 BTW. That's 25 years ago. We just don't know, and I accept that. It's so incredibly vast.

It truly is amazing. And God made all in 24 hours! That is just incredible!! Day 4. Just think how long of a movie you’d have to make to show even half the universe. Obviously God is the ultimate multitasker.
164   PeopleUnited   2023 Jul 12, 4:44pm  

richwicks says


It sounds extremely hateful

Your ship is sinking, if you don’t get in the lifeboat you will drown. Is that hateful to say'?

God revealed to me that I needed a rescue. I accepted it. Do you know the joy that comes with knowing the Creator? Like I said if you did, you would never regret it. You said you once were a Christian and I know you believe that, but if it were true you can only go so long denying that experience, so either it never happened, or you were born again and are now running from the God who saved you. Either way the Word of God will sort it out, that is why we share it.

richwicks says


20 years ago, it was the Christian Right pushing for censorship. Do you remember that?

You mean warning labels and age restrictions on perversion? Yeah I think most nonChristians support that. We ALL know instinctively that some things are not appropriate for children and God gave children parents to protect them from this. Warning labels and age restrictions are just tools to equip adults to protect their children, it is the left that is and ALWAYS has been trying to usurp parental rights.
richwicks says


we have to protect kids" - well, that is true - we need to protect them from our FUCKING government.

True, sometimes governments are wrong, but again that means the people are wrong.richwicks says


I wonder at how a fucking atom exists,

Never trust an atom... they make up everything!!!richwicks says


I just think you're brainwashed, and I live in a sea of people who are brainwashed. You think I'm incorrect

No you are not just incorrect. You are brainwashed. That is what I think. Some of your conclusions are based on lies/half truths, that is the definition of brainwashing.
richwicks says


It took me a long time to see the world materialistically

Which is only half the story and might be part of your spiritual blindness. Thinking materialistic alone is 4th dimensional thinking. You are completely missing the higher dimensions.
richwicks says


The existence of anything, such a mystery!

It is amazing that we exist!!! But it need not be a mystery when you discover thinking on the higher dimensional levels.
165   richwicks   2023 Jul 12, 5:46pm  

PeopleUnited says


richwicks says


This imaging was done in 1996 BTW. That's 25 years ago. We just don't know, and I accept that. It's so incredibly vast.

It truly is amazing. And God made all in 24 hours! That is just incredible!! Day 4. Just think how long of a movie you’d have to make to show even half the universe. Obviously God is the ultimate multitasker.



If your version of God made all this, we aren't seeing light from 13 billion years ago, that light was created to make an image.

It all comes down to the question of what "god" is. If God is that what created us, there's certainly a god, and first you go to your parents, then to the land and environment, then to the Earth, then the sun, then the solar system, then the galaxy we are in, then the universe which we are in.

I've just not got beyond "the universe", and you don't try. It's a real mystery.

Honestly, and I mean this, if there's an afterlife and my dogs aren't there, I don't want to be a part of it. Best creatures I ever had the privilege to interact with. I was very fortunate, but I did do dog rescue, and I had 20 dogs in that time, I just picked out the best 2 of them. Dogs that couldn't be adopted easily, and I could deal with. I was the best possible owner, and I loved them very much - but I'm technically an atheist. I'd go to hell for them, for those two creatures. I would have killed you if you if I judged you to be a serious threat to them.
166   PeopleUnited   2023 Jul 12, 8:17pm  

richwicks says

I've just not got beyond "the universe", and you don't try. It's a real mystery.

The universe is bound by certain rules, we call some of them the laws of physics or laws of “nature.” But for beings like God and the angels who operate in the higher dimensions, they are able to seemingly break the laws of physics. You could say that I don’t try explain it but you have to admit that for those of us who have no experience in higher dimensions it would be futile to try. However, when you understand the angels, demons, God, and even the human soul is able to transcend into higher dimensions it’s not really a mystery at all, except to say that there are very few eyewitnesses who have been able to give an account of the other dimensions, but John the Revelator is one of them. And of course Jesus gave some glimpses of the higher dimension known as heaven, as well as an alternate higher dimension known as hell.richwicks says

Honestly, and I mean this, if there's an afterlife and my dogs aren't there, I don't want to be a part of it. Best creatures I ever had the privilege to interact with. I was very fortunate, but I did do dog rescue, and I had 20 dogs in that time, I just picked out the best 2 of them. Dogs that couldn't be adopted easily, and I could deal with. I was the best possible owner, and I loved them very much - but I'm technically an atheist. I'd go to hell for them, for those two creatures. I would have killed you if you if I judged you to be a serious threat to them.

I too adopted a dog. Actually two of them. One was taken from me and I will always wonder what happened to that poor guy. The other rescue was an absolute amazing thing. I don’t know if I could ever own another dog because it was so ideal, nothing could compare. I do think it’s possible there are pets in heaven, we know for certain there are horses. And in heaven there will be no tears or strife so the humans and angels will treat one another as they should. One of the reasons people love pets is that pets return the love unconditionally, dogs don’t judge, and are faithful to the end (At least as long as you feed them). But God is even more faithful, He loves you even when you ignore Him, mock Him, mock His Children, He did go to hell for you.

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