no, actually there's millions of galaxies that are bigger than the milky way and Andromeda is one of them. the milky way is just a spec compared to the whole universe. Sort of like the Earth compared to the milky way.
What is a Galaxy. I'll take astrophysics for 400.
All matter in the universe.
Stars and planets make up a very small fraction of the universe's total volume. The vast majority of space in the universe is empty, consisting of hydrogen and helium gas, dark matter, and dark energy. Stars and planets are concentrated in galaxies, which themselves make up a small portion of the universe.
we send satellites out into space and take pictures with cameras on the satellites
Age of spaceScientists use the method of relative dating. They say the universe in 10 billion to 15 billion years old. AnswerWe "measure" the age of the universe by looking out into space. We have discovered that most galaxies outside our Milky Way are moving away from us. And the farthest objects we can see are moving away from us the fastest. If we do a "reverse calculation" using the data about those distant galaxies as a starting point, we can take the "movie" of the expanding universe and "run it backwards" to the beginning when Big Bang began to build the universe. And the ball park figure is on the order of 13.5 to 14 billion years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------New Anwser----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Space has no age its all just theories.
Considering the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and the amount of "empty" space, the amount of space an emission nebula occupies is so small as to be infinitesimal and impossible to equate to a volume.
Sure. Several of the space probes launched by the USA are not boundto the Earth or the Sun, and are going through the Milky Way. They'llcross the Milky Way and leave it completely in a few hundred thousandyears, if they don't bump into something first.
If you could go out in space far enough where the light produced from the birth of the milky was has reached and have a device that could pick up the remains of the light and decipher it, then you could. But there is currently nothing that could go out in space that far or take a picture that well to do so.
''because the people who made it were high and cose they could'' no. it was so that NASA were able to explore outside the milky way galaxy. Hubble let NASA take very precise pictures in space.
Astronauts do many things in space. Take photos, record voices, and exploring the universe. And they explore the moon :O hahaha
dude universe is very large that still most of the dark part is still in progress to be revealed. scientists have only found that earth is in a universe, the universe is in the the milky way galaxy if you would have tried to find out more about earth and were it's located in the whole space. we are so small , tiny or any other word u would want to use for it. as long as u r talking about the distance it takes 300,000km/sec and if talk we talk human it takes the fastest rocket to reach mars like nearly 2 whole years and if u talk the planet to reach Saturn or some proto planet further than that it would take THE fastest rocket to reach there like more than 25 years. but the best thing is in space u don't age phsycally maybe mentally who knows i have never been to space.
Yes, scientists can look at space and take pictures of it.. the first time this happened was in the mid 1960's when the voyager was launched. It sent back picture's of space to Earth.. almost half a century later it has final reached the edges of our milky way and take pictures of beyond.