Re:The structure of the Milky Way
by modzu on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:06PM
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it was english for me, but badly translated
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Re:The structure of the Milky Way
by sbuttgereit on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:37AM
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Yep. This sentence in the first photo caption caught me off guard...
"The Milky Way system, called galaxis, resembles a gigantic spiral with an estimated 200 billion stars. One of them is our sun."
I've been an avid astronomy nerd since I was 5 (and I'm almost ten times that age now) and never heard the term "galaxis". The only reference I could find on Google was to the highly acclaimed movie of that name:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113140/
Now I realize they just didn't translate the word "galaxy" when they translated the text to English.