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The sheer size of cosmic voids: If our Milky Way galaxy were inside the Bootes Void, we wouldn't have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
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The sheer size of cosmic voids: If our Milky Way galaxy were inside the Bootes Void, we wouldn't have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
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It's terrifying to think about how much of our early astronomical progess was purely luck based on where our solar system happens to sit. The Bootes Void is roughly 330 million light-years in diameter, yet it contains fewer than 60 galaxies.