“The Milky Way lights up the sky just after 3 a.m. over Lake McDondald in
Glacier National Park, Montana, on Thursday, July 18, 2013.”
Photo courtesy: Daily Inter Lake, Brenda Ahearn

– “Billions of Earth-like planets exist in Milky Way galaxy: study”
“Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life.

Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone.

The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,” quoting Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press.
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– “Evolution of Milky Way Galaxy Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope”
“Astronomers have pieced together a detailed picture of how our Milky Way galaxy came together, using Hubble Space Telescope photos of 400 similar galaxies at various stages of evolution.

‘For the first time we have direct images of what the Milky Way looked like in the past,’ study co-leader Pieter van Dokkum, of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., said in a statement.’

“Part of the team’s findings were published July 10 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, while a second paper appears in the Nov. 11 online edition of The Astrophysical Journal,” quoting Mike Wall, SPACE.com.
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– UPDATE: September 3, 2014
“Earth’s new address: ‘Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'”
“Analysis of galaxies shows local supercluster to be 100 times larger than previously thought,” quoting Elizabeth Gibney in the Journal Nature.
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– UPDATE: March 16, 2015
“Milky Way is 50% Larger than we thought… and it’s a Torus!”
From Spirit Science, with excellent graphics.
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“Laniakea: Our home supercluster”
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– Ramtha has stressed the vastness of Earth-like planets in our galaxy
“If you think that you are the only splendid thing in this universe, you are more narrow-minded than I first perceived. If you think that out of ten billion suns in the Milky Way this emerald with its yellow sun on the outermost part of the mind of God is the only thing that has the human drama, you need a vision. I will send you one. So be it.

You have brethren, sistren, intelligence — yes, human intelligence — that look different than you do. That is because their environment is different.”
– Ramtha
November 14, 1987
Yelm, WA
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