Glowing hot gas waves in the Perseus Galaxies Counting more than a thousand mostly elliptical or lenticular galaxies. The Perseus cluster lies an incredible 250 MILLION lightyears away. (Image taken from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory satellite, launched in July 1999) Reminder: 1 LYr equals nearly SIX trillion miles - that is a "6" with 12 zeros - In this case, this amounts to: 1 billion, 750 million + 12 zeros or: 1 SEXTILLION (10/p21), 750 QUINTILLION (10/p18) 1,750,000,000 / 000,000,000,000 miles 6 x 250, 000,000 = 1750+000.000 (wikipedia, "names of large numbers" ; note, that this is in accordance with the "Short Scale" terminology -- in the European "Long Scale" it would be 1700 Trillion) (NASA AstroPic Archive, May 4, 2017) |