Sheesh. The hate is ridiculous.

WHO IS THE PRESIDENT?

Well, as we all know, recaps are done in this new io9/gizmodo world.

As I understand it, the spiral shape is not actually like a whirlpool but instead like a standing wave on a drumhead. It doesn’t indicate motion toward the center of the galaxy but, instead, a difference in the density of the interstellar gas.

Scientists are fairly sure that there’s a black hole in the center of every spiral or elliptical galaxy. The black hole at the center of our Milky Way is called Sagittarius A.

There’s a black hole at the center, but we’re not spiraling into it in that sense. The spiral is just the result of the middle part orbiting faster around the center than the outer part. There’s no significant inward (or outward) motion.

It’s not spiraling into the middle, it’s just that the fact that things closer in move more quickly than things further out tends to make higher density regions look like spiral arms rather than straight spokes.

It would help if the included link in the article didn’t simply link to the journal but to the paper itself.

That would be REALLY REALLY far. Andromeda is only 2.5m ly away. I’m thinking he meant 250,000

“mere 250 light years away”?! That can’t be right. 250 LY in any direction and you’re still in the Milky Way.

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (which is the closeset to ours)is only 25,000 light years from the Sun, and 42,000 light years from the Galactic center.

In the opening paragraph, did you mean 250 *million* light years?

Astronomers just uncovered hundreds of hidden galaxies a mere 250 light years away

Astronomers just uncovered hundreds of hidden galaxies a mere 250 light years away — well within our own galactic neighborhood.

Have you considered that maybe you just don’t like Star Wars?

A clear example of why the show is bad? Nope, not at all.

You are not wrong, but hating on network sitcoms for simplistic plots and stereotypical characters is shooting fish in a barrel.

Frankly it needs to be a federal law because, while falsely calling law enforcement is a crime in most places, there’s jurisdiction issues and most towns won’t spend an extra thousands of dollars tracking someone down in another state and extraditing said person for what’s usually a misdemeanor.

A lot more. *cough* Breitbart *cough*

Feh, this is a classic misdirection. He probably means he hadn’t seen star wars IX, yet