Why are stars so much further away from each other than galaxies are from other galaxies
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Just using rough numbers. Average star radius ~ 400,000km. Average star distance ~ 5 light years = 100 trillion km
It's hard to get an average galaxy size as there are lots of much smaller faint dwarf galaxies and when to decide the edge of a galaxy. But say average galaxy ~ 1/3 radius of milky way ~ 14,000 light years. Average distance between galaxies ~ 1 million lights years
So stars (compared to their radius) are relatively about 3.5 million times further away from each other than galaxies are away from other galaxies
It's hard to get an average galaxy size as there are lots of much smaller faint dwarf galaxies and when to decide the edge of a galaxy. But say average galaxy ~ 1/3 radius of milky way ~ 14,000 light years. Average distance between galaxies ~ 1 million lights years
So stars (compared to their radius) are relatively about 3.5 million times further away from each other than galaxies are away from other galaxies
