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Thanks for the response, it is not relevant to the measurement today, I was responding to the comment saying the measurement won't change for "next many trillions of years".

Link to the paper mentioned: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/04/aa32880-18/aa32880-18.html If the diameter of the disk really is 100,000 light years across - which I don't think has been proven by direct observations (if it has please share these observations) - it will...

I have recently read research papers that mention that disk stars have been found up to distances as far as 25 kpc from the milky way galactic center and possibly even up to distances as far as 31 kpc. I was wondering if there is a particular distance (or distance range) observed where the...