the Pegasus Dwarf is a satellite of our galaxy?

In the TV show Stargate Atlantis our intrepid hero archetypes travel
through manufactured wormholes to this impressively-named land, far far
away.

I know that recently more satellites have been detected, but..

Is there a "genuine" dwarf galaxy behind the stars of Pegasus? That
direction is below the Plane, so how could a galaxy hide there?

Tia, Sheep

If you shine a flashlight back and forth across Ursa Major, far above our
galaxy's plane, some of those photons will travel for a google google
years as our universe continues to expand.

Try it tonight. You will be the source of a truly cosmic event!

Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so much.

Defender

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Sheep defender wrote:
Is there a "genuine" dwarf galaxy behind the stars of Pegasus? That
direction is below the Plane, so how could a galaxy hide there?

It seems so.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990122.html
But most reports I see have it as being a satellite of the
Andromeda galaxy (M31), not of the Milky Way.

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sheep defender:
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"sd" == sheep defender writes:

sd I know that recently more satellites have been detected, but..

sd Is there a "genuine" dwarf galaxy behind the stars of Pegasus?

See URL:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990122.html for a picture
of the Pegasus dwarf spiral galaxy.

sd That direction is below the Plane, so how could a galaxy hide
sd there?

Once you see the picture, I think you'll understand. Dwarf galaxies
can be fairly diffuse. One of the challenges can be identifying a
group of stars as a dwarf galaxy versus a collection of stars within
the Milky Way.

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sheep defender:
Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so much.

What a sorry existence this dodo has. PLONK!

Davoud



What are you eleven?

If you didn't understand what I posted, just ask. Maybe someone will help you..

Defender

"sheep defender" wrote in message
...

If you shine a flashlight back and forth across Ursa Major, far above our
galaxy's plane, some of those photons will travel for a google google
years as our universe continues to expand.

Try it tonight. You will be the source of a truly cosmic event!

Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so much.


"sheep defender" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

sheep defender:
Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so
much.

What a sorry existence this dodo has. PLONK!

Davoud



What are you eleven?

If you didn't understand what I posted, just ask. Maybe someone will help
you..

Perhaps he said what he did because he did understand.
What meaning is there in sending a few photons into
space that will never be detected again? Most of the
rest of us do things every day that have vastly more
significance, like eat breakfast or sneeze. YMMV.

George

George Dishman wrote:
Perhaps he said what he did because he did understand.
What meaning is there in sending a few photons into
space that will never be detected again? Most of the
rest of us do things every day that have vastly more
significance, like eat breakfast or sneeze. YMMV.

Given what else gets posted here, I thought Davoud's response to what
was obviously a bit of hyperbole was a tad harsh.

Davoud, if your post was humor and I missed it, sorry about that.

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In article , "George
Dishman" wrote:

"sheep defender" wrote in message
...

If you shine a flashlight back and forth across Ursa Major, far above our
galaxy's plane, some of those photons will travel for a google google
years as our universe continues to expand.

Try it tonight. You will be the source of a truly cosmic event!

Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so much.


"sheep defender" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

sheep defender:
Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so
much.

What a sorry existence this dodo has. PLONK!

Davoud



What are you eleven?

If you didn't understand what I posted, just ask. Maybe someone will help
you..

Perhaps he said what he did because he did understand.

He 'understood' from what I posted that I'm a 'dodo' with a 'sorry' existence??

Davoud might have a micro-brain - which fact prefigures his post, but I've
admired your posts for years and you've thought about this.. You're
defending his attitude?

What meaning is there in sending a few photons into
space that will never be detected again?

It will only be meaningful to the thinking person.

I didn't suggest clicking the flashlight switch in order to send out what
might resemble a sequence of prime numbers. Their detection is not
important to me, but given the time spans which we could have only very
recently even theorized about - and imagining the probabilities that that
amount of time allows for, we SHOULD find a glimmer of meaning in this
simple act. Even more so now that it's scientifically credible that we're
the only organisms 'with flashlights' AND the correct scientific narrative
- in any of the nearby galaxies within 25 million light years, according
to Rare Earth projections.


Most of the
rest of us do things every day that have vastly more
significance, like eat breakfast or sneeze. YMMV.

I disagree. Any effect we can instigate which will still be persisting
and moving for many, many trillions of years after the quarks which
presently comprise our bodies have already been 'recycled' through black
holes, is more significant simply by its very idea, than any eating of a
meal.

Defender


George

In article , "George
Dishman" wrote:

"sheep defender" wrote in message
...

If you shine a flashlight back and forth across Ursa Major, far above our
galaxy's plane, some of those photons will travel for a google google
years as our universe continues to expand.

Try it tonight. You will be the source of a truly cosmic event!

Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so much.


"sheep defender" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

sheep defender:
Nothing else you will ever do will have the likely potential to mean so
much.

What a sorry existence this dodo has. PLONK!

Davoud



What are you eleven?

If you didn't understand what I posted, just ask. Maybe someone will help
you..

Perhaps he said what he did because he did understand.

He 'understood' from what I posted that I'm a 'dodo' with a 'sorry' existence??

Davoud might have a micro-brain - which fact prefigures his post, but I've
admired your posts for years and you've thought about this.. You're
defending his attitude?

What meaning is there in sending a few photons into
space that will never be detected again?

It will only be meaningful to the thinking person.

I didn't suggest clicking the flashlight switch in order to send out what
might resemble a sequence of prime numbers. Their detection is not
important to me, but given the time spans which we could have only very
recently even theorized about - and imagining the probabilities that that
amount of time allows for, we SHOULD find a glimmer of meaning in this
simple act. Even more so now that it's scientifically credible that we're
the only organisms 'with flashlights' AND the correct scientific narrative
- in any of the nearby galaxies within 25 million light years, according
to Rare Earth projections.


Most of the
rest of us do things every day that have vastly more
significance, like eat breakfast or sneeze. YMMV.

I disagree. Any effect we can instigate which will still be persisting
and moving for many, many trillions of years after the quarks which
presently comprise our bodies have already been 'recycled' through black
holes, is more significant simply by its very idea, than any eating of a
meal.

Defender


George