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Subject: Why doesn't the center of the galexy light up the sky?

Date: Wed Sep 2 18:00:51 1998
Posted by Megan Hull
Grade level: undergrad
School: Mesa Community Collage
City: Mesa State/Province: Arizona
Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 904777251.As
Message:

I've been studying Obler's Paradox, and most of the answers have to do 
with the size, expantion rate, etc. of the universe.  But looking at 
pictures of our own galexy, the bright cluster in the center should be 
more then enough to light up the night sky by itself.  The light has 
had enough time to get here, so why don't we see it?


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