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Originally Posted by Robh
Wikipedia is a great idea and has a lot of information on all aspects of astronomy and science. I often go to it for convenience but unfortunately what you say is true. You always have to double check the information.
Regards, Rob
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Wikipedia is not the only source of information that perpetuates nonsense, which becomes so called "truth" through constant repetition.
Writers of general astronomy textbooks have been doing this for a long time when they make these three incorrect statements:
- The Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years across.
- Our Galaxy contains 100 billion stars
- The Andromeda Galaxy is like the Milky Way
(it sure isn't! The bulge and disk and halo properties of M31 are
very different from those of the Milky Way)