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The SMC is very close to the Milky Way. Imagine a plan view: You see the Milky Way in its full width, then a gap, then the SMC. That gap is the width of two Mi
by dreamcompiler 3y ago
The SMC is very close to the Milky Way.
Imagine a plan view: You see the Milky Way in its full width, then a gap, then the SMC. That gap is the width of two Milky Ways at most. Not 200 or 2000. Just 2.
- icambron 3y agoFor Andromeda, that gap is about 24. Despite the mind-bogglingly large distances involved, there's a funny sense in which inter-galactic space feels less empty than solar space or inter-stellar space.