UCI makes big discovery about “little” galaxies far, far away
Stop text messaging. You’ll need to focus to grasp this.UC Irvine says it may have answered a key question in cosmology: What’s the minimum mass of a galaxy? The answer turns out to be 10 million times the mass of our own sun. Our sun has 330,000 times the mass of Earth. So even the smallest galaxies are huge, relatively speaking.
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Top 10 Exoplanets: Weird Worlds in a Galaxy Not So Far Away
Hoth. Coruscant. Endor. These names will ring familiar to fans of that galaxy far, far away—the setting for the Star Wars movies, including the new animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Now what about V391 Peg b? GJ 3021 b? WASP-15 b? If you guessed Star Wars droids, you're wrong. They're the names of actual planets found around other stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ...
