4pickupguy
Doctor of Teleocity
There are an estimated 400,000,000,000 stars in the Milkyway.
There are approximately 2,534,400 grains of sand in a gallon.
An average residential swimming pool is 25,000 gallons.
It would take a little over six swimming pools to hold a Milkyway worth of sand/stars. (157828.28 gallons)
The Milkyway is a disk with a diameter of 100,000 light years and a thickness of 1000 light years. This is approximately the ratio of a compact disc (remember those?)
The average distance between stars (as grains of sand) is 6 miles……. Representing an average of 4 light years between stars…….. Let that sink in.
Now, imagine even as grains of sand, how big an object our galaxie is……
That’s 1500 miles thick and 150,000 miles in diameter. IN GRAINS OF SAND!!!!
Andromeda has a TRILLION stars!!!
Discuss.
There are approximately 2,534,400 grains of sand in a gallon.
An average residential swimming pool is 25,000 gallons.
It would take a little over six swimming pools to hold a Milkyway worth of sand/stars. (157828.28 gallons)
The Milkyway is a disk with a diameter of 100,000 light years and a thickness of 1000 light years. This is approximately the ratio of a compact disc (remember those?)
The average distance between stars (as grains of sand) is 6 miles……. Representing an average of 4 light years between stars…….. Let that sink in.
Now, imagine even as grains of sand, how big an object our galaxie is……
That’s 1500 miles thick and 150,000 miles in diameter. IN GRAINS OF SAND!!!!
Andromeda has a TRILLION stars!!!
Discuss.