Science!

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 05/01/2020 at 18:54 • Filed to: None

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Journalists are not known for their scientific acumen, but admittedly this time it could be an English failure.

Still, I’m blaming our public schools’ science programs.

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For Sweden > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 19:18

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and 100 more > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 19:19

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I mean, it’s not a photo... it’s an artist’s interpretation of the Milky Way (I guess?), and it’s probably stock, but definitely not a photo.

Just Jeepin' > and 100 more 05/01/2020 at 19:23

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It looks like a photo to me. How can you tell otherwise?

DipodomysDeserti > and 100 more 05/01/2020 at 19:26

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Maybe it’s a stock photo of a drawing?

WilliamsSW > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 19:29

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I’d like to shake the hand of the photographer who left the galaxy to go take a picture of it

VincentMalamute-Kim > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 19:32

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That looks like a stock photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. The Milky Way is a sprial galaxy with arms. Plus i t’d be really difficult to get a photo of the Milky Way from the perspective of that article’s stock photo !

and 100 more > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 19:47

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I dunno. A lot of the people in the comments were saying it’s a photo of Andromeda. Most of the pics i’ve seen of interstellar objects are either artist’s intrepretations or highly-massaged false-color images, or even data-sets that are used to recreate an image (which, i mean, anything digital counts i guess?)

Either way, you’re correct, it’s definitely not a photo of the Milky Way.

Chariotoflove > and 100 more 05/01/2020 at 19:57

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I think that’s the case.  We learned as kids that this galaxy in Andromeda is likely very much like our own, and so people use it as a stunt double for the Milky Way Galaxy. But when you’re talking science, accuracy means something, so that should have been in the figure legend somewhere.

user314 > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 20:15

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Fake news! The Milky Way is now thought to be a barred spiral galaxy:

and 100 more > Chariotoflove 05/01/2020 at 20:21

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For what it’s worth: here’s an artist’s intrepretation of how large Andromeda would be in our sky , if it were much much brighter and if we could see it thru our atmosphere.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > For Sweden 05/01/2020 at 20:35

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I think you're gonna get a lot of mileage out of this meme. 

Chariotoflove > and 100 more 05/01/2020 at 20:41

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That would be so cool.

SiennaMan > and 100 more 05/01/2020 at 20:54

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Sometimes even journalists find English challenging...  for instance,  if they'd simply remembered "image" when they typed "photograph", much trouble could have been avoided. 

BigBlock440 > Just Jeepin' 05/01/2020 at 20:54

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Are you saying we can’t believe everything we see in the media?

For Sweden > Snuze: Needs another Swede 05/01/2020 at 20:54

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The market demands good content

Just Jeepin' > BigBlock440 05/01/2020 at 21:02

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Just this once.