Starship Asterisk*

Yes, Bystander, you are correct - I meant that the description would more accurately read that the boomerang nebula is "the coldest known region in the local neighborhood." The Milky Way dimensions that Orin mentions bear that out. The "distant universe" seemed synonomous with &q...

Well, 5000 LY isn't really the "distant universe." In fact it would qualify as the outskirts of the "local neighborhood" (not to be confused with the local group), a region about 10000 LY in diameter and 3000 LY deep, centered on the sun, but well within the confines of the Milky...