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."

Comments

So

[Mikkeles]

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

Re:How do they define a galaxy?

[Travoltus]

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

It becomes Congress?

What happens if a black hole eats...?

[fredistheking]

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

Not very long ago...

[ian_mackereth]

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

like looking at the milky way through 3d glasses

[themysteryman73]

"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!

Re:Why is this considered a galaxy?

[Anonymous Coward]

'Not to be confused with a gobbler cluster, a bunch of turkeys huddled together.'

Ah, a parliament or congress.

Re:5000 times the size of a full moon?

[Quixote]

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

Hmm

[BitterAndDrunk]

"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.