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New Galactic Neighbor

Posted by samzenpus on from the there-goes-the-neighborhood dept.

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."

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  1. So by Mikkeles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't see the galaxy for the stars, eh?

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    1. Re:So by Monkofdoom · · Score: 3, Funny

      Reminds me of that song,

      3 blind scientists

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  2. Re:How do they define a galaxy? by Travoltus · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What happens if a black hole eats another black hole?"

    It becomes Congress?

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  3. What happens if a black hole eats...? by fredistheking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

  4. Not very long ago... by ian_mackereth · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... in a galaxy surprisingly not so far away...

  5. *in warbly voice* by phaetonic · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a trap!!!!

  6. like looking at the milky way through 3d glasses by themysteryman73 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "It's like looking at the Milky Way with a pair of 3-d glasses," said Princeton University co-author Robert Lupton.

    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!

  7. Re:Why is this considered a galaxy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    'Not to be confused with a gobbler cluster, a bunch of turkeys huddled together.'

    Ah, a parliament or congress.

  8. Re:Wrong priorities... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    One of these days the Earth will be invaded by aliens without any warning...

    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.

  9. Re:5000 times the size of a full moon? by Quixote · · Score: 5, Funny
    Moon = .5 degree
    FTFA: nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon

    So naturally it is 5000*0.5 = 2500 degrees, silly!

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    ;-) for the ;-) -impaired
  10. Very cool! by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  11. Hmm by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 4, Funny
    "In case that's not enough to explain it to you, consider that the Moon is much smaller than Jupiter, but appears to be larger because it's much nearer."

    Sounds an awful lot like witchcraft, if you ask me. I think we should burn you and the moon, just to be sure.

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  12. Why women are smarter than /.ers by Honkytonkwomen · · Score: 3, Funny

    They know you're lying when you tell them "You can't see it because it's so big".

  13. Re:hmmm by adyus · · Score: 3, Funny


    Apparently they're now called vertically challenged galaxy overlords.

    Think of the little people...