Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 6, 2013 @11:50AM from the all-lined-up dept.

Janek Kozicki writes "It has been long thought that dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda galaxy (M31), or any other galaxy for that matter, are distributed more or less randomly around the host galaxy. It seemed so obvious in fact that nobody took time to check this assumption. Until a 15-year-old student, Neil Ibata, working with his father at the astronomic observatory, wanted to check it out. It turned out that dwarf galaxies tend to be placed on a plane around M31. The finding has been published in Nature. Local press (especially in France) is ecstatic that a finding by a 15-year-old got published in Nature. However, there's another more important point: what other obvious things didn't we really bother to check?"

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what other obvious things we didn't really ... by Nutria · 2013-01-06 11:57 · Score: 5, Funny

bother to check?
Stuff that scientists don't want to be mocked by their peers for checking.

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Re:Working with his father... by Lumpy · 2013-01-06 13:03 · Score: 3, Funny

I made pizza completely from scratch in my kitchen. Something that 70% of the population cant do. That makes me a genius on this planet.

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Re:Working with his father... by jimmetry · 2013-01-06 13:18 · Score: 4, Funny

You weren't the first to do it though.
Re:Working with his father... by smg5266 · 2013-01-06 15:06 · Score: 5, Funny

To make a pizza from scratch, you must first invent the universe.