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   Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2026 02:03:57 JST Col

   Astronomers have made the first measurement of the full size of the largest known galaxy, obtained with the Isaac Newton Telescope in the Canary Islands. IC 1101 is roughly 1.7 million light-years across, with mass equal to roughly 3.4 trillion suns.
   For comparison, our galaxy is around 110,000 light-years across, so this galaxy is 15 Milky Ways wide. By volume, almost 4,000 Milky Ways would fit in IC1101. This massive galaxy hasn't finished growing yet.

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     lankohr (lankohr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2026 05:35:08 JST lankohr

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     • Andreas Esch 🖖

     @AndreasEsch @kibcol1049 The question is not if there is intelligent life. The question is why doesn't it want to have to do anything with us. And then you look at this world: The greatest destroyers are the leaders of this planet. We destroy our selves (globally and most people also personally). Why should intelligent life want to communicate with such a hopeless species. Maybe Star Trek IV (and other sci-fi) was right: Whales or some other "animals" are the real intelligence of this planet.

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     Andreas Esch 🖖 (andreasesch@norden.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2026 05:35:09 JST Andreas Esch 🖖

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     @kibcol1049

     Dass sich irgendwo dort Leben befindet, ist nicht Null.
     Ich wollte es nur gesagt haben. 🖖

     Steve's Place repeated this.