![]() If you view the stars of this area it's possible that Alpha Horologii is the only star you'll see and it's not terribly bright. It's an orange giant and in allegorical drawings it usually winds up being the brass bob at the end of the clock's pendulum. There is a globular cluster in this direction called Arp-Madore 1. It is currently the most distant globular cluster known to orbit our Milky Way galaxy. It's almost 400,000 light years away. Considering that the bright disk of our galaxy is a mere 100,000 light years across, that gives you some scale of the big halo of crap orbiting around us. Imagine living on a planet in Arp-Madore 1 and looking up at night and seeing the full glory of the Milky Way. Except in a globular cluster most planets probably don't have anything resembling "night." ![]() Both the Horologium and Laniakea Superclusters contain about 10^17 solar masses each, which even on cosmic scales is considered a shit-load. Carpe Noctem Skywise Unlimited |
I had no idea that a supercluster was visible in the sky as a constellation. Just when you think the enormousness and numerousity and gersplobilating flippityfloppiness of the universe couldn't get any more gesplobilatious!
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