So it's not called Snickers. They are considering calling it Galaxy Budweiser since Anheuser-Busch sponsored the mission.
OK. that's a lie too. It's really called Sukanya Chakrabarti after the person whom sent away his $100 fee for the having a star or galaxy to be named later after them.
OK... Seriously. Sakanya Chakrabarti and Leo Blitz at Berkeley in California have made the possible discovery. According to Chakrabarti the two followed a theory that gravity from a nearby galaxy was causing 'perturbations' which have been observed in gas on the fringes of our own Milky Way.
Perhaps they should have just said they felt a disturbance in the force. Anyhow, according to their simulations they have determined the neighboring galaxy is about 1 percent the size of our Milky Way. To put it in perspective that's 10 billion times the size of the sun. Now hold your pinkie finger up to you mouth like Dr. Evil. Say it again, "10 Bill-ion times..."
Their work has been confirmed as 'plausible' by Abraham Loeb at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Mass. He wasn't part of the study but his input has considered all the verification they need, "Of course, the fact that we don't see such a massive satellite is an issue."
OK. that's a lie too. It's really called Sukanya Chakrabarti after the person whom sent away his $100 fee for the having a star or galaxy to be named later after them.
OK... Seriously. Sakanya Chakrabarti and Leo Blitz at Berkeley in California have made the possible discovery. According to Chakrabarti the two followed a theory that gravity from a nearby galaxy was causing 'perturbations' which have been observed in gas on the fringes of our own Milky Way.
Perhaps they should have just said they felt a disturbance in the force. Anyhow, according to their simulations they have determined the neighboring galaxy is about 1 percent the size of our Milky Way. To put it in perspective that's 10 billion times the size of the sun. Now hold your pinkie finger up to you mouth like Dr. Evil. Say it again, "10 Bill-ion times..."
Their work has been confirmed as 'plausible' by Abraham Loeb at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Mass. He wasn't part of the study but his input has considered all the verification they need, "Of course, the fact that we don't see such a massive satellite is an issue."
Chakrabarti suggest the galaxy has remained hidden because we were not looking for it.
OK... I'm lying again. He actually said it's because this neighboring galaxy is not a brilliant spectacle. Translation? It's not very bright, or - we were not looking for it. Chakrabarti also suggest that this smaller neighboring galaxy is in someone of an orbit to our own making harder to see. Oh... well that explains everything.
