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by IndianAstronaut 3988 days ago
There are an estimated 1 trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy.
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It's kind of a shame humanity evolved in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

If we'd evolved in one of the Magellanic Clouds, we'd see an astounding squashed spiral view of this galaxy with direct line of sight of the bright nucleus.

Meanwhile if there are life forms in Magellanic Clouds they are probably looking at the spiral arms thinking that it is a shame that they did not evolve in a galaxy proper...