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Can you answer my post?About the milky galaxy?

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
Um, yes. You can see the Andromeda Spiral galaxy, which is about 2 million light years away, without a telescope (although only as a faint fuzzy blob). If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see the Magellanic clouds.

With an amateur telescope you can see hundreds of other galaxies, and with professional scopes, we have seen hundreds of billions of other galaxies.

Why do you ask?
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Um, yes. You can see the Andromeda Spiral galaxy, which is about 2 million light years away, without a telescope (although only as a faint fuzzy blob). If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see the Magellanic clouds.
Orion is one of the most beautiful sights in the sky. It is an arm of the Milky way galaxy in which our sun is situated. But in Orion region itself, there are 7 Markerian galaxies and galaxy clusters.

"The nuclei of the galaxies had a blue colour, associated to stars in the classes from O to A. This blue core did not match the rest of the galaxy. The spectrum in detail tends to show a continuum that Markarian concluded was produced non-thermally. Most of these have emission lines and are characterized by highly energetic activity."
Markarian galaxies - Wikipedia
The Markarian Galaxies in Orion - In-The-Sky.org
 
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Frank Goad

Well-Known Member
Um, yes. You can see the Andromeda Spiral galaxy, which is about 2 million light years away, without a telescope (although only as a faint fuzzy blob). If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see the Magellanic clouds.

With an amateur telescope you can see hundreds of other galaxies, and with professional scopes, we have seen hundreds of billions of other galaxies.

Why do you ask?

Just curious.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Do you think there is galaxies beyond the milky way one?
We know there are.
Interestingly, just a 100 years ago it was just speculation. Only with Edwin Hubble and the Mt. Wilson telescope could this be shown without a doubt. Today the number of galaxies in the known universe is estimated between 100 and 200 billion.
 

gnostic

The Lost One
Do you think there is galaxies beyond the milky way one?
You do realize that the individual stars you see (without any telescope) are only ones that are relatively very close to Earth?

All the stars that we can see without telescopes, are all located on a couple of bands or spirals, and we cannot the whole spiral, only portions of the spirals where the stars on the line-of-sight.

While you would only see at least 1 galaxies, depending on which hemispheres you living on, and perhaps more if happened to live somewhere near the equator.

I only know of 4 galaxies in total, that can be observed without using any telescope:
  1. Large Magellanic Cloud (about 160,000 light years away)
  2. Small Magellanic Cloud (about 200,000 light years)
  3. Andromeda Galaxy (about 2.2 million light years)
  4. Triangulum Galaxy (3 million light years)
There are couple of small galaxies closer than even LMC, but they are not visible to the naked eye, so you need a telescope to view them:
  1. Canis-Major Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (about 25,000 light years)
  2. Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy (about 70,000 light years)
So yes, there are other galaxies in the universe, other than the Milky Way. Billions more. And the only way to see more, is through larger telescopes.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
I would suspect that many who live in cities and have never ventured outside of the light pollution caused by such might never have seen our own galaxy in all its glory. Quite a difference and rather awe-inspiring. :openmouth:
 

dad

Undefeated
We know there are.
Interestingly, just a 100 years ago it was just speculation. Only with Edwin Hubble and the Mt. Wilson telescope could this be shown without a doubt. Today the number of galaxies in the known universe is estimated between 100 and 200 billion.
Seems to me that God Himself named some in Job, such as Orion.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
No, that is an invented term by so called science. However, the star groups God referred to were...well..groups of stars.
No, scientists can see starts in galaxies with only moderately powerful telescopes. The fact that you can't do so with your naked eye does not disprove their existence. It is time to leave the fishbowl dad

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