The Milky Way
« on: April 25, 2018, 10:02:47 PM »
In a flat Earth, would the Milky Way be billions of discrete points of light (like in Round Earth) or would it be a continuous, luminous gas?
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Re: The Milky Way
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2018, 01:29:51 AM »
I've wondered this myself actually. We can't exactly depend on what "they" tell us about it, can we? Empirically we can't discern any discrete points of light so I would lean towards the latter, but without being able to directly observe its content I think it would be a bit presumptuous to assume it's a gas.
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