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How do we know what our galaxy looks like when the furthest we can see os pluto

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-06-28] [Hit: ]
Pluto is a planet (or was), just like Earth (what you are standing on now), Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,......

These telescopes don't show the whole story. The stars and planets aren't crystal clear. It's a really fuzzy picture to look at, so astronomers have to use other galaxies as a base, and their imagination for what a particular galaxy might look like.

I don't think you understand the size of the universe or what Pluto is. Pluto is a planet (or was), just like Earth (what you are standing on now), Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. All those planets revolve around the Sun (that bright circle in the sky). The Sun is a star just as are the bright lights in the night sky. And just like the Sun, those (or most) of those stars have planets revolving around them. Also, revolving around planets are moons. Some stars don't have any planets. Some have large spinning disks of gas swirling around them. Some are going supernova right now destroying everything in its path. They come in different shapes and colors. There are billions of solar systems in our galaxy, all revolving around the black hole at the center of our galaxy. In addition to that, there are billions of galaxies, and maybe even more, in the universe. To compare, Pluto is an average 5,763,920,000 km from Earth while the distance from Earth to the center of our galaxy, the milky way, is approx. 249,757,949,760,000,000 km. The diameter of the observable universe is approx. 879,829,141,200,000,100,000,000 km.

Face it, we are a speck and we may never know what's really out there. All we can do is watch the rest of those specks circle around their planet, star, supermassive black hole, or float away from us.

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By using telescopes, filters, and CCD sensors and cameras that can see through the dust to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even from the inside of the Milky Way, we can still see outside of it with telescopes. People who have been trained in analyzing and interpreting and mosaicing images together create those photo-mosaic images of the Milky Way galaxy and the Deep Field photo-mosaic images of galaxies millions of light years away from Earth. We can see a LOT further than Pluto.
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