Timeline for If our galaxy is mostly empty space then why does it look so solid?
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| May 11, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1392087095414607874 | ||
| May 5, 2021 at 17:38 | answer | added | user38308 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 4, 2021 at 19:27 | vote | accept | user39131 | ||
| May 4, 2021 at 18:28 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 3, 2021 at 17:56 | comment | added | Connor Garcia♦ | Because the angular resolution of the human eye is only an arcminute. If you put hundreds of billions of stars into a few thousand square degrees of the celestial sphere, the human eye isn't capable of differentiating them. Zooming in would allow differentiation between the gaps. | |
| May 3, 2021 at 11:53 | answer | added | Ralf Kleberhoff | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 3, 2021 at 10:41 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | You may enjoy my description here of how sparse the Milky Way is. | |
| May 3, 2021 at 9:26 | answer | added | Anders Sandberg | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 3, 2021 at 6:23 | answer | added | JohnHunt | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 3, 2021 at 2:48 | comment | added | antlersoft | When you look at the Milky Way in a nice dark sky, it is a faint glow with a dark band down the middle. There's nothing solid about it. Distant galaxies look much the same way, only smaller. That's the way a galaxy really looks; if a picture looks more solid than that, it's overexposed. | |
| May 3, 2021 at 2:13 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 3, 2021 at 2:12 | history | asked | user39131 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |