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As I recall, neither of our galaxy's jets are pointing near the solar system. And we're distant, and relatively well shielded. So I doubt that there could be an
by mirimir 7y ago
As I recall, neither of our galaxy's jets are pointing near the solar system. And we're distant, and relatively well shielded. So I doubt that there could be any danger.
If you were on axis, though, anything "in" the galaxy would be at risk. Given that we see jets in other galaxies that are longer than their radii.
- rbanffy 7y agoI would imagine all Earth-like planets in the Magellan's clouds would be thoroughly cooked.
- mirimir 7y ago3C 273's visible jet is "~200 kly (60 kpc) long".[0] There's even a Hubble image.[1] Our galaxy is about 150-200 kly in diameter.[2] And the Large Magellanic Cloud is ~163 kly away.[3] So yeah. 0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273 1) https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-hubble-gets-the-best-image-of-bright-quasar-3c-273/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-hubble-gets-the-b... 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud