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Universe Map News: The Star Wars galaxy has been identified and plotted on Inisfreean maps.

The Universe

As far as we can tell, our reality, which we call the Universe (truncated to just 'the Verse' in this creative writing community and omni-saga), is infinite; it goes on forever in all directions without end, and shows promise of being as immortal as the Inisfreeans are. There may not have been a start to it all, and there just as likely may never be an end. Our understanding of it is arguably still as juvenile and backward as when we believed in the geocentric theory. That being said, venture out and explore it with a very open mind.

We can only see 3,000 galaxies so far, but we can detect more than 1 trillion (including entire galaxies which do not emit visible light; they are only detectable in the radio, infra-red, and x-ray spectrum brackets, for example). Furthermore, we calculate there are more than 300 sextillion stars in our known 'Verse' (3 trillion times 100 billion), and some galaxies contain only 100 billion of them, while other galaxies contain more than 10 trillion.

In other words, you will never run out of room to expand, so you will never really need to engage in Space warfare unless you just really feel like it for some reason (perhaps you have some Norse blood in your veins).

Notes and Lists:

Orienting Facts:
Within 1,000,000,000 LY of Earth, there are:

100 superclusters
240,000 galaxy groups
3,000,000 large galaxies
60,000,000 dwarf galaxies
250,000,000,000,000,000 stars

A blazar is a very compact quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) associated with a presumed supermassive black hole at the center of an active, giant elliptical galaxy. Blazars are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe and are an important topic in extragalactic astronomy.

Regarding the Inisfreean Realm

While Inisfree technically is anchored on Earth, and while the Inisfreean star-system 'Auzdein' is technically a part of the universe, both exist in their own, exclusive, dimensional 'pockets' beyond the forces and time-streams of everything in our reality. The terms 'universe', 'verse', and 'omni-verse' are interchangeable here, and the Inisfreean empire interacts with them, yet remains distinctly apart from them.

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Universe Map

Milky Way Galaxy

Sol System

Galaxies:

Characteristics:

ten million to one hundred trillion stars, as well as stellar remnants, interstellar gases and dust, and dark matter

Ours:

Milky Way Galaxy

Nearby:

Omega Centauri
Canis Major Dwarf
Virgo Stellar Stream
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Large Magellanic Cloud

Others:

Andromeda Galaxy
Black Eye Galaxy
Bode's Galaxy
Cartwheel Galaxy
Centaurus A
Cigar Galaxy
Comet Galaxy
Hoag's Object
Small Magellanic Cloud
Mayall's Object
Messier 83
Pinwheel Galaxy
Sculptor Galaxy
Sombrero Galaxy
Star Wars Galaxy
Sunflower Galaxy
Tadpole Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy
Whirlpool Galaxy

Galaxy Groups:

Characteristics:

more than 2 galaxies, and usually fewer than 50 galaxies

Ours:

Local Group

Others:

Burbidge Chain
Canes Venatici Group
Canes Venatici II Group
Centaurus A/M83 Group
Copeland Septet
Deer Lick Group
Draco Group
Leo Group
Leo Triplet
Markarian's Chain
M51 Group
M81 Group
Robert's Quartet
Sculptor Group (South Polar Group)
Seyfert's Sextet
Stephan's Quintet
Ursa Major Group
Wild's Triplet
Zwicky's Triplet

Galaxy Clusters:

Characteristics:

hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity
composition: 1% galaxies, 9% intergalactic gas in ICM (the intracluster medium; the superheated plasma present at the center of a galaxy cluster), and 90% dark matter

Nearby: