space.com— The discovery of several large, metal-poor stars located far from the center of the Andromeda galaxy suggests our nearest galactic neighbor might be up to five times larger than previously thought.
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@UlissesLaid back is either hyphenated or written as one word. "Laid-back or laidback"."I'm burying every submission with spelling or blatant grammatical errors as inaccurate, do the same and tell idiots who don't bother to proof read the s**t they throw into the system to keep them coming."You didn't punctuate that sentence properly. The comma after inaccurate should either be a colon or a period. Also, there should be a comma after "same" to separate the clauses.And, like laid-back, proof read is hyphenated or written as one word. "Proof-read or proofread."In summary: you suck at your own game.
FWIW, that computer image comes from Stellarium, available for free on Win/Mac/Linux, and it is awesome.Everyone owes it to themselves to go out on a clear, dark night, perhaps with a pair of decent binoculars, and look at Andromeda. Use Stellarium to find where it is (its label is M31, and it is nearby Cassiopeia), then go out and look at it.At about 2 million light years, it is the furthest thing that can be seen with the naked eye, and with binoculars, you will clearly see a spiral galaxy. Highly recommended.
@ChadN - while I agree that everyone should take a look at Andromeda if they're able, I'd say most people living in urban areas will see a hazy light oblong 'smudge' rather than a clear spiral galaxy even through large binoculars, if they can find it at all through the light pollution.
haohmaruJan 8, 2007
That would definitely reduce the time our galaxies merge to only a few hojillion years.
extremophileJan 8, 2007
"Bigger than Thought"?I don't know about this claim.Thought is pretty big.
dostermJan 8, 2007
@UlissesLaid back is either hyphenated or written as one word. "Laid-back or laidback"."I'm burying every submission with spelling or blatant grammatical errors as inaccurate, do the same and tell idiots who don't bother to proof read the s**t they throw into the system to keep them coming."You didn't punctuate that sentence properly. The comma after inaccurate should either be a colon or a period. Also, there should be a comma after "same" to separate the clauses.And, like laid-back, proof read is hyphenated or written as one word. "Proof-read or proofread."In summary: you suck at your own game.
topher06Jan 8, 2007
Funny, Andromeda the series 5 times lamer then expected too.
chadnJan 8, 2007
FWIW, that computer image comes from Stellarium, available for free on Win/Mac/Linux, and it is awesome.Everyone owes it to themselves to go out on a clear, dark night, perhaps with a pair of decent binoculars, and look at Andromeda. Use Stellarium to find where it is (its label is M31, and it is nearby Cassiopeia), then go out and look at it.At about 2 million light years, it is the furthest thing that can be seen with the naked eye, and with binoculars, you will clearly see a spiral galaxy. Highly recommended.
ray901Jan 8, 2007
not sure if this has been posted before:<a class="user" href="http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/superc.html">http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/superc.html</a>nice maps of the universe with some numbers/counts of stars, galaxies etc. thrown in
chrisgrangerJan 9, 2007
@ChadN - while I agree that everyone should take a look at Andromeda if they're able, I'd say most people living in urban areas will see a hazy light oblong 'smudge' rather than a clear spiral galaxy even through large binoculars, if they can find it at all through the light pollution.