Our Galactic Neighbor 40,000 Light-Years Closer To Milky Way Than Previously Believed

Our Galactic Neighbor 40,000 Light-Years Closer To Milky Way Than Previously Believed. Hmmm, is this the same NASA that presumes to know what things like the temperature, weather and sea-level will be 100 years from now? Now that’s funny.

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  • Brought to you from the same people who have to hitch a ride with the Russians at 40 Million a pop.

  • Oh sorry im a woman and NASA is now Muslim outreach. Please dont drone me Im so sorry a had an opinion. Ill go to my room til 6 men come to allow me out! Maybe the dikes at code pink or NOW will care that Im being held and beat by my hubby. Oh hell no they to busy gettin Whore Fluck a pill!!!!!!

  • No whats funny is my local weatherman who is using the same maps gets our local weather wrong half the time. IF YOU CANT TELL ME WHATS HAPPINING ON WEDNESDAY WHY I BEILIVE U KNOW WHATS HAPPENING 10 YRS FROM NOW!!!!

  • And why TF did I have to listen to that Mexican Jumping Bean music? Cutting in and out so bad I couldn't even read the whole article.

  • The article is pretty crappy from a scientific POV. It's not 40,000 light years closer than was previously thought, it's just 40,000 LY less than the maximum of the estimated range (150,000-200,000 LY). If you turn that into a guess of 175 KLY, it's only 10 KLY off, or about 5% error. As it is, 163 KLY falls into the previously accepted range.

    It also pulled said that the galaxy is 100,000,000,000 times the size of our sun, when it should be comparing mass. A quick check shows this figure was stolen from Wikipedia and then misused.

    And, lastly, NASA had nothing to do with it. These measurements were taken by Chile's Universidad de Concepción.

  • I'm guessing NASA thinks there are Muslims there for them to reach out to, or something.