Milky way has an incredible discovery today that shows us in reality how big is the galaxy of which we are all a part, it comes after a very careful analysis made for the universe. Thanks to the Fermi telescope, and in collaboration with NASA, researchers finally managed to calculate the size of the Milky Way galaxy, and the new data show us that it is even larger than initially thought, reaching 1.9 million light-years.
Milky way it stretches from one corner to another at a distance of 1.9 million light-years, which finally tells us that we are part of a cosmic body whose size includes millions upon millions of stars. The total size of the Milky Way is 15 times larger than that of its luminous disc, and this is because outside it there is black matter that does not emit light, and whose diameter was extremely difficult to calculate by researchers.
The Milky Way: The INCREDIBLE image, how big the Galaxy is
Milky way it had its diameter calculated using the galaxies that orbit it, and the researchers say that the margin of error is 0.4 million light-years, so very large, but that was to be expected. Finding the edge of the Milky Way galaxy was very complicated, researchers using simulations for how galaxies form to try to make this calculation, and above you can see what the galaxy we are part of would look like in reality at this moment.
Milky way it is not a total unknown, so in order to calculate the diameter, the data from these simulations were applied to the images recorded so far in relation to it, and this is how we arrived at 1.9 million light-years. The discovery is a very important one because it tells us in the end how small we are in this huge galaxy, not as if many people don't already know that in the Milky Way there are so many cosmic bodies that we don't count.
Milky way it is under continuous monitoring, and it is more than certain that we will find out other impressive discoveries made by the astronomers who are monitoring very carefully at this moment.
