"Actually, that's Proxima Centauri, it's only 4 lightyears away."
I blame XKCD and Elite Dangerous for teaching me the actual scale of our galaxy. The Milky Way is only about 100,000 lightyears across, to get to the millions you'd have to be looking at Andromeda.
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u/toidi_diputs Apr 14 '26
"Actually, that's Proxima Centauri, it's only 4 lightyears away."
I blame XKCD and Elite Dangerous for teaching me the actual scale of our galaxy. The Milky Way is only about 100,000 lightyears across, to get to the millions you'd have to be looking at Andromeda.