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Galactic Pancake Mystery Solved

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the galactic-syrup-lay-undiscovered dept.

mOoZik writes "According to the BBC, Astronomers have figured out why a series of small galaxies surrounding the Milky Way are distributed around it in the shape of a pancake. Theorists believed that the eleven dwarf galaxy companions should have a diffuse, spherical arrangement, but a University of Durham team used a supercomputer to show how the galaxies could take the pancake form without challenging cosmological theory."

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  1. A pancake... by Poromenos1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aha, now all that remains is to find a galaxy shaped like a bottle of maple syrup!

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  2. Short answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our local cluster is a franchise of IHOP (intergalactic house of pancakes).