Haley's comet and the light that we see reflecting as its tail is 2 million light years long?

Question

when we see the comet from earth its just a tiny speck with a tiny tail. scientists say that this comet is about 20 million light years away from our earth

so why are religions trying to make our universe look so tiny and present everything as a neatly packaged gift to believers?

xmuslim

Reminds me what john stuart mill wrote

'never try to talk reason and knowledge with religious people'

The answers below shows how ignorent people are about science and our universe

Answer 1

Our galaxy is a disc shape, only 100,000 light years from one end to the other, and only about 3,000 light years thick. I think your mixing up the message there somewhere.


HAHAHA, you're hilarious. I see both atheists and christians on here (I recognize a lot of the names) and we're all agreeing telling you you're wrong, and you call us the ignorant ones? Look it up online.

I think you're gonna owe us an apology.

Here, I even did the work for you.

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/howfar/across.html

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/howfar/howfar.html

Answer 2

A tail that long would take a long time to see. I am a Christian. I don't see the universe as tiny. Our galaxy is huge, and there may be a billion more. This is more than I can imagine. If we were to go to our sun at the speed of light, it would take about 8 minutes. Since light is 3X10 to the 8th (power) meters per second, then this becomes a huge number.

Answer 3

Haleys comet orbits our sun. The Earth is 8 Light minutes away from the sun. The comet orbits at about every 75 something years, therefore it is impossible for it to be 20 million light years away.

PS, The nearest star (other than our sun) is 4 Light years away. (Proxima Centauri)

Answer 4

i've got individually considered the Andromeda galaxy with purely touch lenses. it relatively is not the farthest merchandise all and sundry has considered. M33 is particularly farther. M81 and m51 are plenty farther. there is a minimum of one quasar it relatively is 2.5 billion mild years away at around twelfth importance. it relatively is interior the selection of a back backyard telescope with purely your eyeball. With photos, the telescope might nicely be plenty, plenty smaller, on account which you're able to do time exposures. the attention accumulates mild over a era of a pair of million/fifteenth of a 2d. it relatively is a sprint longer if the attention is dark tailored (used to the dark). it relatively is not the gap to the object that concerns. it relatively is the brightness. Telescopes help with the brightness with the aid of amassing mild from a bigger section. So the diameter of the great end of the telescope is the bit that concerns. Magnification isn't as lots of an help. the reason that some quasars at over 2 billion mild years away are brighter as considered from Earth than various the celebs interior the galaxy is that quasars are plenty, plenty brighter from the commencing up. it could additionally be suggested that stars selection from a pair of million/10,000th as wonderful with the aid of fact the sunlight to approximately one hundred,000 circumstances brighter. So various the wonderful stars you will locate at night are not those that are extraordinarily close to with the aid of. Deneb is probable 3,000 mild years away, inspite of the shown fact that it looks purely particularly dimmer than Sirius, at 11 mild years.

Answer 5

Whew. A whole 2 million light years?

That makes earth a lot larger than anyone knew until now.

Maybe we're bigger and smarter than even we thought.

Answer 6

What?????

It orbits every 70 some years. It is never 20 million LY away. Andromeda (the nearest galaxy) is only 2.2 million LY away.

Answer 7

Uh, sorry, but you need to go back and take an astronomy class. No comet is visible at that distance; indeed, it is difficult to resolve individual stars at that distance.

HTH

Charles

Answer 8

You are several orders of magnitude wrong on this one. It's a few light hours away, at most.

Answer 9

Not 20 million light years -- that's far bigger than the length of our entire GALAXY.

20 million MILES, maybe.

Answer 10

I suspect that you don't know what a "light year" is. Your numbers are WAY WAY off.