When you turn off the stars . . .

The other night, I fired up an old copy of Distant Suns 5.1.
I was playing around with the settings, when I started noticing
a few interesting phenomena, when I turned off most of the stars,
and looked at the whole hemisphere at a time.

1. Most of the comets (of the six or eight default loaded)
seem to orbit within 10-20 degrees of the Milky Way.

2. The galaxies of Virgo, Coma B. and Canes V. seemed to
form a separate disc, similar to our Milky Way.

3. And there were vast streches of sky in which there were
relatively few cataloged galaxies. This echoes the findings
of a cosmological "foam" structure to the distribution of matter
on a very large scale.

cheers,
Larry G.

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Your mind is a terrible thing to waste - TURN OFF YOUR TV!

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