Message from @Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe
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Oh but I thought you said there was only one galaxy in star wars
BLOW ME
you've been had my good friend
The few dwarf galaxies are in orbit around the main spiral galaxy and are less than 50,000 light years away
Just like how irl the Large and Small Magellanic clouds aren't actually viewed as separate galaxies
Since they're so close and small in comparison to other large galaxies like the Andromeda
Learn astrophysics
The Magellanic Cloud are considered separate galaxies
They're dwarf galaxies that orbit ours
Do you separate all of the marshmallows out of your lucky charms at match them together before you eat them too?
I mean, they're dwarf galaxies yes
But they're quite close
In comparison to other spiral-arm galaxies of similar size to our own
There's a bit of overlap
Just like Pluto, Eris, Ceres and so forth are considered Dwarf Planets, but not full planets
They're orbiting the milky way too
They're not in independent space
I can't fathom this big brain shit
Literally all I do with my time is watch and read astronomy material
@Fash Dragon this is elementary-school tier science
Precisely
I have a shit ton of star atlases on my bookshelf
He'll yeah borther
Too big brained for me. You're all getting the rock
this ooga booga
Isaac Arthur is my idol
@Flaxxer I've been into astronomy since I was 5 and my dad bought me a reflector telescope
I wish I got more into it. The universe is really sexy
I learned how to spot Uranus eventually, but Neptune was too far out for the model I had
We had to get rid of our telescope after my brother looked directly.into the sun
I'm from Arizona, which has the best view of the stars in the U.S
lol
Darwin award
I screwed up my refractor when I was 8; I taped paper over the lens to look at sundogs but scratched the lens getting the tape off
I told him not to because he'd go blind so he did it
Neptune was originally mapped out through algorithms and models before it was discovered
when I was 9 we moved to an urban area, so I mainly used my reflector telescope to spy on some neighbors through their window across a field
@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe when are you going to bully your dad into Nazism?
I think a rudimentary understanding of the universe is necessary to any scientist because it shows the fractal nature of things on the largest scale possible
Astronomy is the most Chad of the sciences