Humans are in the middle. There are things orders of magnitude smaller and larger than us.
Interesting perspective from Neil Degrasse Tyson about not just being a black scientist but a scientist in general...
That’s what I want to knowHow do they know what the Milky Way looks like?
That’s what I want to know
How can they see the center of somewhere we are on an arm of ? Youre looking horizontally not from above so you can’t see anything but stars.They have images of millions of galaxies, see the different kinds, then based off looking through the center of the milky way you can get an idea of what kind of galaxy this is.
How ca
How can they see the center of somewhere we are on an arm of ? Youre looking horizontally not from above so you can’t see anything but stars.
This is a picture looking through the center of the milky way
This is a picture looking through the center of the milky way
I can KINDA see how they do it, but it's still a guesstimate, not exact.
I've always wanted to go to a spot dark enough to see the galactic cloud at night. Shit must look awesome in person.