Tuesday, 26 June 2007

We're Not From Here

Scientist from the University of Massachusetts announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy. It seems we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy.

Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey, a major project to survey the sky in infrared light, the astronomers are answering questions that have baffled scientists for decades and proving that our own Milky Way is consuming one of its neighbors in a dramatic display of ongoing galactic cannibalism.

2 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

what!? why would you post the "mind body spirit" version of this instead of the scientific account that does not make use of magical thinking to connect global warming and mayan prophesies to otherwise interesting science?

Anonymous said...

oh, and i read your disclaimer and agree that you have no obligation to fact check what you post, but i am concerned when psuedoscience gives fodder to people who wish to show that human activities have nothing to do with global warming, or that the end is nigh so none of this really matters.