Space com
By Monica Ravisetti
October 5, 2023
If you thought imagining the scale of our sun is stressful — it’s 333,000 times more massive than the entire Earth — you’ll be pleased to know the Hubble Space Telescope has reminded us of something even bigger. There’s a galaxy out in space that’s 1.1 trillion times more massive than our host star. It’s named NGC 612, and we now have a new image of it.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, NGC 612 isn’t as big as the Milky Way. The galaxy we live in is approximately 1.5 trillion times more massive than the sun. Or… maybe that didn’t help.