"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> > I will admit I don't know much about the geometry of our galaxy, but I was
> > under the impression that the disk is hundreds of billions of light years
> > "thick",
>
> It's much smaller than you think:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way

I always remember galactic vital statistics by knowing all the lyrics to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_song

:-)

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