2006-06-26 20:22:11 · 13 answers · asked by *** 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes. Beyond our own Milky Way galaxy there are estimated to be 200 billion more galaxies in the visible universe at distances up to 13 billion light years from Earth.
2006-06-26 20:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here an edited answer I gave to the same question someone asked a few days ago.
You must mean universe, not galaxy.
We live on planet Earth, which is in a solar system. A solar system consists of a star (we call ours the sun), planets which orbit the star, and maybe other debris and gases. Solar systems are in galaxies. Our galaxy is the Milky Way. It's a barred spiral galaxy and it's a big one. Our galaxy is 100,000 light years across. That means, traveling at the speed of light, it'd take you 100,000 years to get from one side to the other if you went straight across the disk.
There are billions of trillions of galaxies in the universe and ours is just one of them. Between galaxies is mainly empty space. Occasionally one may find an intergalactic star that got flung out of a galaxy, or debris and chunks of things of all sizes here in there, but they are few and far between. Intergalactic space, does, however, contain a thin sea of dust, hydrogen, and other gases floating around but the density of it all is far less than that of anthing we'd consider substantial...with few exceptions.
2006-06-27 03:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our galaxy is not just the only one, there are more & more galaxies and our galaxy is one of these galaxies. So there must be many galaxies beyond and around this galaxy.
2006-06-27 03:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by Naseem 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... Other galaxies.
2006-06-27 03:25:04 · answer #4 · answered by anonfuture 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are many other galaxies and super clusters of other galaxies
2006-06-27 03:26:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, billions of other galaxies, massive superclusters which are collections of galaxies, black holes, quasars and probably other universes if you adhere to the parallel universes theory... There are lots of other things which we still don't know and won't be able to know.... What interests me though is that if there are parallel universes out there, does that mean that our counterparts in other universes enjoy webdate dot com as much as we do?
2006-06-27 06:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by thynoe123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many more galaxies.
2006-06-27 03:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our galaxy could be compared to a pin of a pine tree in a middle of a huge forest of pine trees..... Thats how many galaxys there are... as many as pine pins in a huge forest of pines....It is so grand, that we (our galaxy) are no more that a very little dot....
2006-06-27 04:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are billions of galaxies out there.. you should ask is there anything beyond this universe?
2006-06-27 03:26:44 · answer #9 · answered by mig 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different galaxies, as well as other solar systems. I have also read that there are other planets within those solar systems.
2006-06-27 03:28:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋