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> If we were in the center of the void, we would see no stars in the sky with the naked eye. According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s."

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void. Pretty eerie to think about.




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