New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies

Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by 01acheru on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:22PM (#26071737)

I don't know if I understand what you're asking... what meaning would there be in measuring "an odd number of galaxies within a specific radius of a red giant star"? It would be purely from our point of view, those galaxies might look like in a radius in a flat representation but they are incredibly far away from each other and the red giant star it's waaay closer to us than those galaxies. Same kind of reasoning applies to the other examples... could you elaborate a bit?

Not to say you're wrong about anything, I simply didn't get it

edit: grammar

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by soheil on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:27PM (#26071786)

For example we see gravitation lensing effect even though the galaxy that is causing it is in front of what is being lensed from our perspective. So there may still be reasons to see if there are any patterns even if it's just from our perspective and also because it's the only one we have access to.

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