Flail Chest (Definition) Flail chest is a life threatening medical condition in which multiple segments of the rib cage have been broken and are loosened. These segments cause severe bruising and damage to the lung. ...Read more.
The Milky Way is the second-largest galaxy in the Local Group, with its stellar disk approximately 100,000 ly (30 kpc) in diameter, and, on average, approximately 1,000 ly (0.3 kpc) thick.
Previously, as of July 2015, EGSY8p7 was the most distant known galaxy, estimated to have a light travel distance of 13.2 billion light-years away. Approximately 170 billion (1.7 Ã 1011) to 200 billion (2.0 Ã 1011), or, more recently, at least 2 trillion galaxies exist in the observable universe. Most of the galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter and usually separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). The space between galaxies is filled with a tenuous gas having an average density of less than one atom per cubic meter.