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Old March 13th 14, 04:12 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space |
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Old March 13th 14, 02:18 PM posted to sci.astro
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On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 9:12:17 PM UTC-7, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space |

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http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/0...my+Magazine%29


JWST will likely improve our reading of empty space.

The outer-most radius fringe of our galaxy and that of Andromeda could be half again greater.
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Old March 13th 14, 05:38 PM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics
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On 3/12/2014 9:12 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space |
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http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/0...my+Magazine%29

Indeed, figure our galaxy as having half again to twice as much radius.
 




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