Is the milky way galaxy the last galaxy in the universe?
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nineteenthly say: I don't think your question is clear. The Milky Way is our galaxy and there are still many others.
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Tina say: i dont think so.!
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Ronald 7 say: Shouldn't they all start with Capital Letters ??
The Milky Way is only one of billions of Galaxies in the Universe
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goring say: There is approx a Trillion galaxy in the physical universe.we would have to analyze them all, and for about $60 dollars an hour it could be a prohibitive cost.
Most likely all the galaxies we created at the same time all at once.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Probably not the last, probably not the first - just one of billions....
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Sky say: Considering depending on where in the world you are and what time of year it is you can look up at the night sky and see other galaxies with your own eyes, don'tcha' think the answer to your question is no?
And where do you get the idea that this is a "dead" galaxy considering there are nebulae within this galaxy currently making new stars? The Pleiades are 7 young stars still trailing the remnants of the nebula they came from, and the Orion nebula, which again you can see with your own eyes, have a bunch of brand new stars. You are sorely mistaken about the Milky Way and the universe.
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tham153 say: "Last"? It is one of hundreds of millions that are known to exist
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Jeffrey K say: No. There are hundreds of billions more.
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Bulldog redux say: It's the last one on the left.
Update for thumbs-downers: Alright, have it your way. It's the last one on the right. Happy now?
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Starrysky say: Not the last, but the closest to us. We are inside it.
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sparrow say: No. There's plenty of galaxies out there that are alive and well.
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The Phoenix say: What is a dead galaxy?
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John P say: New galaxies are in the process of formation all the time, so the Milky Way could not possibly be the "Last galaxy" which has ever been formed (By "last" I mean "the most recent" - which is the normal meaning of "last" in that sort of context - possibly from your note about "oldest" you have a different interpretation of "last".)
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Jared say: No but it's the last one you'll ever get to go to. Or any human for that matter.
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poldi2 say: No, it is the galaxy we live in.
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cosmo say: Not dead. The star formation rate in the Milky Way is several stars per year.
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Adullah M say: It is depend on which is the first galaxy that you start counted in the universe.
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Jake No Chat say: Nope, there are countless galaxies. And according to studies, there are at least 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. The Milky Way is one of those, but not the first nor the last.
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MysteryGuy say: Haha hell no. We aren't that special
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Nyx say: It's sort of just before middle aged. Not the oldest, not the youngest.
Still has lots of hydrogen left to keep on making new stars, and planets.
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CarolOklaNola say: No, and it is not dead.
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Brilliant "Skippy" Answer say: No, but as the universe expands and accelerates as it expands we'll see less of all the 750 Billion or so other galaxies.
Where the universe is 13 Billion years old now, by the time its 250 Billion years old there will be no galaxies outisde the local group visible. Peeps in the future will have no evidence of the big bang, or the true size of the universe.
They only the local group and a static unchanging blackness beyond.
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Funnelweb say: For all we know it may be. But it probably isn t.
The Milky Way is the second largest of three large spiral galaxies in the Local Group. The largest, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, is approximately 2.5 million light years away from us. The third largest, the Triangulum Galaxy, is approximately 3 million light years away. So we can see the light that left these two galaxies over 2 million years ago. but we can t see either of them as they appear now.
Galaxies outside the local group are much further away. The most distant galaxies which can be detected are over 13 billion light years away.
Of course there are other small galaxies in the local group which are much closer. For instance the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds are 160,000 and 200,000 light years away respectively. Meaning when I looked up and saw the Large Magellanic Cloud the other night I was only seeing it as it was 160,000 years ago.
So for all we know every other galaxy in the universe vanished 100,000 years ago, and the Milky Way is the only one left. This doesn t seem very likely. We don t know of any process which could have destroyed all the other galaxies but left the Milky Way intact. But we have no direct observational evidence that all the other galaxies we can see or detect with our telescopes still exist now.
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Acetek say: no it is one of a estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe
our galaxy is roughly 12.5 billion years old.
and it has a very long life ahead of it
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