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New Galactic Neighbor
Dan Yocum writes "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveals a new Milky Way neighbor: a galaxy so big we couldn't see it before. A huge but very faint structure, containing hundreds of thousands of stars spread over an area nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon, has been discovered and mapped by astronomers of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey."
Can't see the galaxy for the stars, eh?
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
"What happens if a black hole eats another black hole?"
It becomes Congress?
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
And it's headed this way!!!!!!!
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
It's a trap!!!!
I wonder where he got 3d glasses that make stuff look 3d in real life? I could use some of them to stop walking into walls so much!
Ah, a parliament or congress.
You can't really be this stupid. It's obviously talking about the apparent area of the sky it occupies. Try not to be such a fucking literal minded geek and you'll find that life goes a lot more smoothly for you.
We've been here a while now. We did the Veni, Vidi, Vici thing, you just don't know it yet, but, yea, all your base are belong to us.
FTFA: nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon
So naturally it is 5000*0.5 = 2500 degrees, silly!
This is like that part in the movie or the comic book, where the guy is tripping out or whatever, and he's staring into the dark void of space, and then slowly he realizes he's staring into a GIANT FUCKING EYE!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I notice all the responses have been based on Evolutionism and other types of science. Ask any expert in Intelligent Design and you'll get the real answer.
When the flying spagetti monster passes by, he leaves a lot of pasta sauce behind him. Its this sauce that was blocking the galaxy.
Sounds an awful lot like witchcraft, if you ask me. I think we should burn you and the moon, just to be sure.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
They know you're lying when you tell them "You can't see it because it's so big".
If I remember my Physics elective from uni, Galaxies are internally gravitationally bounded, that is the entire 'clump' of things is held rougly in equalibrium with gravity providing the contracting forces.
Because if it wasn't bound by gravity it would be an open cluster nebula.
what really matters though is isf this cluster has 100 billion stars or not. if it only has 99,999,999,999 stars it's not a galazy at all. I assume someone counted before declaring this collection of distant stars a galaxy, but someone had best double check just to make sure. if it's lacking the numbers, it's just a cluster.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Apparently they're now called vertically challenged galaxy overlords.
Think of the little people...