Rejoice to all fans of the theory that the earth is flat and the galaxy is even flatter. Although in 2009 scientists found that we were inside a large sphere, astronomers from the University of California found more than 200 stars forming the rim of the Milky Way. The furthest is a million light years away.
To clarify the position of the galaxy’s boundaries, a team of experts calculated the distance to the stars of one of the oldest celestial bodies, RR Lyra. Their brightness changes every few hours or days, allowing scientists to calculate.
As a result, it turned out that the closest of the stars is at a distance of 65 thousand years from Earth, and the farthest at a distance of 1.044 million light years. The scientists concluded that the boundaries of the Milky Way extend about half the distance to the Andromeda galaxy.
Source: People Talk
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