Our Galaxy May Be 10 Times Bigger Than We Thought

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. • • The Milky Way is often described as measuring 100,000 light years across and containing the mass of a trillion Suns. But our home galaxy is actually far bigger, and might be much less massive. Astronomers aren't sure what the exact stats are, and a lot of it's to do with that pesky, pesky dark matter. • Hosted by: Stefan Chin (He/Him) • ---------- • Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: / scishow • ---------- • Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi • ---------- • Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? • SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ • TikTok: / scishow • Twitter: / scishow • Instagram: / thescishow • Facebook: / scishow • #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly • ---------- • Sources: • https://www.aanda.org/component/artic... • https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1711 • https://www.earth.com/news/stars-at-t... • https://www.aura-astronomy.org/center... • https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... • https://www.universetoday.com/139985/... • https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro... • https://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/g... • https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12838.pdf • https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/... • https://www.space.com/30417-parallax.... • https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~pettini... • https://kurious.ku.edu.tr/en/news/the... • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/200.... • https://lco.global/spacebook/galaxies... • Image Sources • • Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space? • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the... • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:To... • https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ph... • https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/observa... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ar... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Da... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ga... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GA... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mi... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ga... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cl...

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