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Old 10-15-2010, 11:59 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Not a particularly long time in the lifetime of a galaxy. Our own Sun, for example, at about 5 billion years old, is only about half way through its lifetime as a main sequence star.
7 billion years is half the (believed) lifetime of the universe. I'd say that's pretty long. Who knows how many of those galaxies have drifted away, or collided, &c.?
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