Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way 111
astroengine writes "Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy. As you'd expect, this caused quite a mess; stars, dust and gas being ripped from the intergalactic interloper. In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled and astronomers have spotted an odd-looking exoplanet orbiting a metal-poor star 2,000 light-years from Earth. Through a careful process of elimination, the extrasolar planet (known as HIP 13044b) actually works out to be an extragalactic planet, a surviving relic of the massive collision eons ago."
Re:splitting hair definitions (Score:3, Interesting)
You could call it the distinction between saying you're reading an amazing book from the store across the street, and you're reading an amazing book that's in the store across the street.
Re:I call bullshit on that (Score:3, Interesting)
5.5 × 10^-6, which sounds like pretty much the same chance as you being a reasonable human being.
So there are only 36,835 reasonable people on Earth. And they all live in Liechtenstein.
Re:Old (Score:3, Interesting)
The Bible makes no claims as to the age of the galaxy, only the age of the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. First line of genesis from whichever version of the bible google pulled up for me.
Re:Where's an editor when you need one? (Score:3, Interesting)
just like a space alien found on earth wouldn't be an extraterrestrial being, it'd be a being of extraterrestrial origin..