Photo of the day – “The Milky Way” above Moor Lough, County Tyrone

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Moor Lough Milky Way.

Photo by MNM Photography, Taken on September 26, 2014

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter, which contains 100–400 billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets as well. As we all worry about if Stormont will collapse, who can march where etc etc it does no harm to remember that we are one of 7 billion people on a little planet in the infinite universe. Is there intelligent life on other planets? God knows. There is not much of it round here that’s for sure.

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