Judging the size of something is often best done when comparing it to other things, but that line of thinking tends to break down when you start talking about objects in space. Earth is huge, but not when you compare it to something like Jupiter, and Jupiter is tiny compare to our Sun, and our Sun is tiny when compared to… well you get the idea.
So, when you’re trying to measure the weight of something as large as a galaxy it can seem almost too abstract to even grasp. We’ve barely seen a sliver of what the Milky Way contains, but scientists are doing their best to offer a big-picture estimate of what our home galaxy contains and how much it all weighs.
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Just guess how much the Milky Way weighs originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 13:08:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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