Milky-way galaxy

Since the diameter of space-time is six billion light years, that was our own Milky-Way Galaxy that you saw through your 400-inch telescope. However, this is the Milky-Way Galaxy of two thousand years ago.

Our Island Universe (The Milky-Way Galaxy) — and there are millions of them — contains over 100 billion Suns (or Stars) and planets by the hundreds of millions.

Many stories have been invented to account for this milky band of light, but today we know that it is the light of millions and millions of stars making up our “Island Universe” the Milky-Way Galaxy.

We belong to the Milky-Way Galaxy, one of about 100 billion stars formed in a disk shaped spiral structure.

You will notice that the wide band of sky which follows the Milky-Way from the northeastern horizon to straight overhead (through the summer triangle mentioned in the Aug. 14 Nugget) and on to the southern horizon is far richer in stars than the rest of the sky. This is because the Milky-Way Galaxy, our local “island universe,” is a disk-shaped object and quite thin in comparison with its diameter.

And the UFO Encounter stationery not only locates Roswell in the USA, but also on Planet Earth and in the Milky-Way Galaxy.

Conservatively, there are about a hundred billion stars just in our Milky-Way Galaxy (not my numbers, folks!) — that’s a 100 with 9 zeroes after it — and conservatively there are about two hundred billion galaxies in the known universe (again, not my numbers either, folks!).