Milky Way galaxy

15:4.8The Milky Way galaxy is com­posed of vast num­bers of for­mer spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, and many still re­tain their orig­i­nal con­fig­u­ra­tion. But as the re­sult of in­ter­nal catas­tro­phes and ex­ter­nal at­trac­tion, many have suf­fered such dis­tor­tion and re­ar­range­ment as to cause these enor­mous ag­gre­ga­tions to ap­pear as gi­gan­tic lu­mi­nous masses of blaz­ing suns, like the Mag­el­lanic Cloud. The glob­u­lar type of star clus­ters pre­dom­i­nates near the outer mar­gins of Or­von­ton.

32:2.11The Sa­ta­nia sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is far re­moved from Uversa and that great sun clus­ter which func­tions as the phys­i­cal or as­tro­nomic cen­ter of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. From Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, it is over two hun­dred thou­sand light-years to the phys­i­cal cen­ter of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, far, far away in the dense di­am­e­ter of the Milky Way. Sa­ta­nia is on the pe­riph­ery of the lo­cal uni­verse, and Neb­a­don is now well out to­wards the edge of Or­von­ton. From the out­er­most sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­ter of the super­uni­verse is a tri­fle less than two hun­dred and fifty thou­sand light-years.

15:3.1Prac­ti­cally all of the starry realms vis­i­ble to the naked eye on Uran­tia be­long to the sev­enth sec­tion of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. The vast Milky Way starry sys­tem rep­re­sents the cen­tral nu­cleus of Or­von­ton, be­ing largely be­yond the bor­ders of your lo­cal uni­verse. This great ag­gre­ga­tion of suns, dark is­lands of space, dou­ble stars, glob­u­lar clus­ters, star clouds, spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, to­gether with myr­i­ads of in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, forms a watch­like, elon­gated-cir­cu­lar group­ing of about one sev­enth of the in­hab­ited evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

15:3.2From the as­tro­nom­i­cal po­si­tion of Uran­tia, as you look through the cross sec­tion of near-by sys­tems to the great Milky Way, you ob­serve that the spheres of Or­von­ton are trav­el­ing in a vast elon­gated plane, the breadth be­ing far greater than the thick­ness and the length far greater than the breadth.

15:3.3Ob­ser­va­tion of the so-called Milky Way dis­closes the com­par­a­tive in­crease in Or­von­ton stel­lar den­sity when the heav­ens are viewed in one di­rec­tion, while on ei­ther side the den­sity di­min­ishes; the num­ber of stars and other spheres de­creases away from the chief plane of our ma­te­rial super­uni­verse. When the an­gle of ob­ser­va­tion is pro­pi­tious, gaz­ing through the main body of this realm of max­i­mum den­sity, you are look­ing to­ward the res­i­den­tial uni­verse and the cen­ter of all things.

42:5.53. The short space rays. These are the short­est of all purely elec­tronic vi­bra­tions and rep­re­sent the preatomic stage of this form of mat­ter. These rays re­quire ex­traor­di­nar­ily high or low tem­per­a­tures for their pro­duc­tion. There are two sorts of these space rays: one at­ten­dant upon the birth of atoms and the other in­dica­tive of atomic dis­rup­tion. They em­anate in the largest quan­ti­ties from the dens­est plane of the super­uni­verse, the Milky Way, which is also the dens­est plane of the outer uni­verses.