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Probably quite pretty if you could take a photo every million years or so (for a comparison, the Sun makes one orbit around the center of the Milky Way roughly
by Sharlin 3y ago
Probably quite pretty if you could take a photo every million years or so (for a comparison, the Sun makes one orbit around the center of the Milky Way roughly every 226 million years).
- p5a0u9l 3y agoThe time scales involved! There is no known physical mechanism by which we could ever share information with this galaxy and have any semblance of “now”. It’s just impossible, as far as our science knows. That’s humbling. It’s a yawning chasm.