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Thanks for the reply, Nereid -- much appreciated. The star density in the denser parts of the galaxy was something I was wondering about, but you say they'd all look like points. Makes sense, since the sun is merely a bright star from Pluto. A google search about the star density in the...

I meant they can be 10LY apart along the viewing axis. Example: You're standing at the end of a long perfectly straight road. If you look far down it with a telescope, zoomed in very far, all the cars will appear to be the same size even if each car is actually spaced a mile apart, since...

Really? How? I mean, you can look at a telescope image and seen 12 large stars, but each of those stars could be 10 light-years apart, so from anyone of them, all the others would be dots. And yeah, I'm aware of false coloring, but a number of the images are supposed to be true-color, aren't...

Yes, that is what I meant. If you place an axe blade onto a wooden board and push, you'll probably do nothing more than making a slight dent. But if you bring the blade back and then swing it at the board, you'll chop it in half. If things are packed together then vulnerability is minimized...

Question: When moving things break, what is the fundamental cause? My assumption is it is air. The fact that there are hollow spaces around the moving parts makes them vulnerable. Something like human muscles work without requiring hollow spaces because they're chemical, not mechanical. So...

This is a pretty simple question, but it's often portrayed in art as basically being how it looks when you're zoomed in really far, which it obviously is not. Is it reasonable to assume that from any typical point within a galaxy, looking at the galaxy with a human-eye field of view, that all...