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From: mcgeer%ji@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (Rick McGeer)
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Subject: Re: Size of the Galaxy
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:45:19 EST
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>If memory serves me, current numbers list Milky Way as one of the biggest
>single galaxies we know of.  Is there an astronomer in the house?
>C. Wingate
>

	I'm not an astronomer, but the Milky Way is not an extremely large
galaxy.  It is the second largest galaxy in the Local Group (Andromeda is
far larger).  The Milky Way is big, probably in the upper tenth percentile
of the galaxies in the Universe.  But not "one of the biggest"

							-- Rick.