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View Poll Results: How big is the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky? | |||
A point object, like the planets | 3 | 9.09% | |
A just-distinguishable oval | 5 | 15.15% | |
One fifth the width of the moon | 2 | 6.06% | |
the same width as the moon | 3 | 9.09% | |
five times the width of the moon | 6 | 18.18% | |
twenty-five times the width of the moon | 1 | 3.03% | |
The blue one next to the fish | 13 | 39.39% | |
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03-21-2013, 09:49 AM | #1 |
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How big is the Andromeda Galaxy?
A quick poll on an astronomy question!
Now, I'm not asking how big the Andromeda Galaxy (the nearest big galaxy to our own Milky Way) actually is, but how big it appears to be in our night sky. Well, it's not very bright, but if it were lots brighter, so that we could see it easily, how big would it be in the sky, compared to the only object in the sky with a visible size that we can look at easily - the moon. I've made a picture to help you, showing Andromeda and the moon, from 25x the width of the moon down to 1/5 the width of the moon. (You can imaging a tiny oval and a point size object, I'm sure!) The answer is behind the spoiler. No peeking until you've voted in the poll! Spoiler:
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03-21-2013, 09:59 AM | #2 |
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I had to vote fish, because I had no idea.
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I have no idea how large the Andromeda galaxy is but I do know that it is huge compared to the Milky Way. Spoiler:
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03-21-2013, 10:12 AM | #4 |
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Fish was my vote too.
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03-21-2013, 10:16 AM | #5 |
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03-21-2013, 10:17 AM | #6 |
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I didn't think people would be so cautious in their voting!
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03-21-2013, 10:23 AM | #7 |
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I was incautious...
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I voted
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03-21-2013, 02:36 PM | #10 |
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03-21-2013, 04:08 PM | #11 |
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I thought it was a really long way to the chemist's
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No s#%t? You should probably write a paper or something, "Stuff looks different if you see it from a different viewpoint" - I bet nobody's noticed that, like, ever
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03-21-2013, 06:31 PM | #14 |
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I voted "A just-distinguishable oval"
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