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Ring Of Stars Found Around Milky Way

Posted by timothy on from the but-they're-set-on-low dept.

LoPingHo writes "Scientists have found a ring of stars around our galaxy that has previously been undetected due to the faintness of the stars. The article says that it only amounts to 1% of the galaxies mass, but if they are just now finding those, that means there could be even fainter ones there too. Could this be part of the elusive 'dark matter' talked about so much lately?"

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  1. Ring of stars by CaseyB · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds like they've discovered a Kemplerer Rosette. :)

  2. I don't get it by Cyno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't dark matter simply matter that doesn't emit light? If stars get formed by huge clouds of gas that eventually create so much heat and pressure that it starts a process of fusion, then its more than likely all this dark matter we are talking about is just that, dark matter, dirt, whatever you want to call it. It isn't anything significant other than it isn't radioactive, which is a good thing, IMO.

    1. Re:I don't get it by zmooc · · Score: 5, Interesting
      Before you say it, yes its impossible to accelerate to lightspeed.

      Only according to a theory that assumes c is a constant while it is not - it's getting slower al the time. It's called CDK. This may also very well mean the red-shift calculations used to determine the speed at which galaxies move away from us are totally wrong which may therefore mean that the universe is not expanding at all (or at least not that fast) which makes the mass-calculations bullshit as well and may very well mean dark mass does not exist and there's just nothing out there. This is a good read about it: http://www.ldolphin.org/bowden.html

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