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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. hmmm by dolphin558 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our new dwarf galaxy overlords

  2. Why is this considered a galaxy? by dolphin558 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....and not a hybrid of globular cluster and galaxy. What makes a galaxy a galaxy?

  3. Obligatory by Fermatprime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's no galaxy...

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  4. Futurama-o-rama by radiotyler · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Leela: I don't know what you did, Fry, but now all the planets in the galaxy are gonna be crackin' wise about our Mommas...
    Hermes: I'm just glad my fat ugly Mama isn't around to see 'dis day...
    Professor: Enough about your promiscious mother, Hermes...

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  5. huh by ShaneThePain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what no pictures? NEXT!

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  6. Re:Spece is big by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This just gets worse and worse. First, we're a lovely spiral galaxy, Queen of the Galaxies. Then we're an ugly bar-spiral, with a sombrero bulge. Then, just a few days ago, they reveal we're warped and distorted.

    And now we're this?!?!? Jesus H. Christ, Yahweh, can't you do a better job than that?!?!?

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  7. Coincidence? by dghcasp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Given that the galaxy is so huge, and it was discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and sloan is Russian for elephant, I think there may be a sinister conspiricy here... (cues X-Files music...)

    Or it could be a big coincidence.