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

@Flaxxer hell yeah brother

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

Along with Chemistry

Like when you really start to look at it, stars in a galaxy don't arrange themselves too differently from flowers in the head of a sunflower

Fibonacci sequence my dude

Pre fucking cisely

I used to be a Hardline atheist until I started looking into fundamental mathematics

The virgin Social Science vs The Chad Physical sciences

Divine numerology

Next level esoteric

Atomic organization works too well for it to just be one big accident

It's obvious that a higher power had something to do with its development

@Odalman My dad is 54 man, he's beyond hope