I just realized something

We don't know what our galaxy looks like from a frontal view; how could we when the furthest we've sent a satellite is twice the distance pluto is from the sun? How could we when we're inside the Orion Arm of our galaxy, and can only view a horizontal cross section of the galaxy? How the fuck, then, do we know the Milky Way looks like this:

When all we/ve ever seen is this:

 

because of science

 

thats a milkyway

 

/fingerprintsonmychocolate

 

Oh ye...

Also, science.

 

blaze broke the thread >.>

 

I'm going to assume that if the resolution of the satellite image is high enough, you can determine the red/blue shift (=relative distance) of the individual stars in the bright part of the galaxy.

Once you know that all you have to do is plot it, since you know the galaxy is horizontal.

Also if I remember correctly spiral galaxies are the most common type of galaxy; so it's not hard to get a good idea of what it should look like.

/spam forum

 

They must have used some sort of Super Google Earth or something.

 

This is why people should stay out of SFA^

PS. Crop your damn pictures.

 

They simply shot a mirror up there and took a photo of that reflecting all we wanted to see ?

 

Fun fact, if we were to get a camera 2012 light-years away from us with a 2012 light-year zoom lens, we would be able to see what actually happened in the whole Jesus Story

 

That would work, but it would take thousands of years for a mirror to travel far enough away from the galaxy to get a good view. Not to mention the millions of stars they'd have to avoid, and the thousand more years it would take for the information to travel all the way there and back between our camera and that mirror

@det, I don't think you could measure distance with the doppler effect, you can measure the speed at which they're moving towards or away from you

 

Yeah I fucking love milky ways

 

only to find out the lens cap is still on there, LOL.

 

The stars inside the galaxy itself aren't moving away from each other, so this is a fail on both of your parts.

 

I just meant using doppler to measure in general-- it's a method of measuring speed and direction

 

wtehfuck is wid all de sigs?

 

Wide thread is wide

 

Here's what you forgot to realize though.

You have to really understand the origins of the Milky Way. You have to realize that if the Milky Way doesn't look that way, then how is it suppose to look, huh? Is it not big enough for you? I suggest you heed the following information and enlighten yourself just a little bit on the Milky Way:

The Milky Way bar is a chocolate bar distributed by the Mars confectionery company. The American version of the Milky Way bar is made of chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate and is very similar to the Mars bar sold in other countries. The non-US Milky Way bar, on the other hand, is not topped with caramel and is therefore similar to the American 3 Musketeers bar.

A long running advertising slogan for the product in the United Kingdom and Australia was, "The sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite".[8] In 1991, the Health Education Authority and anti-sugar lobbyists both complained, without success, to the ITC that such advertising encouraged children to eat sweets between meals. The ITC agreed with Mars that its advertisements in fact encouraged restrained eating.[9]

However, marketing for snack foods such as Milky Way has altered since the 1980s, with its focus now being the reverse of what it was. Instead of Milky Way and similar foods (e.g. the Cadbury Fudge) being snack foods that won't prevent one from eating normal meals, modern marketing positions these snacks as ones that will reduce hunger at mealtimes and curb the appetite in-between. By 2003, sweet marketers such as Andrew Harrison of Nestle were seeing greater acceptability of grazing, and less social stigma attached to not consuming three square meals a day, and thus the death of the old Milky Way slogan.

MilkyWay was best known for its 1989 ad, featuring a red car and blue car. In summer 2009, a slightly edited version of the 1989 UK advert featuring the blue car and red car was revived with the slogan, "Lighten Up And Play". There were also minor lyrical changes made so that no reference to the old slogan about "not losing your appetite" was made, instead changing the lyrics from "it won't spoil his appetite" to "it's something that tastes just right". Also, the word "smart" was replaced with "good". Beside lyrical changes there are a few minor tweaks to the video, The sign next to the cars at the start have changed from "Lunchville" to "Playville", a signed post is changed from "Dinner town" to "Light town" as well as Red Car eating the doughnut man on a "Eat Me Do-nuts" sign. Also musical edits were made,perhaps for timing reasons by removing the instrumental 'gaps', so the ad was almost pure lyrics. In addition, the logo on the bar was changed to its more well-known current logo. They removed the first few seconds of 'intro' music as the cars rev up for the race, the few seconds before the blue car eats the milky way and a slightly shortened end to account for the shorter slogan dislayed on the lighted board.

[citation needed]

 

Aren't the ones at the center spinning in towards a black hole and thus they move towards some and away from others and then towards others and away from some?