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:
Re:The structure of the Milky Way
by krylon on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:50AM
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I think "galaxis" is the ancient latin term. Either way, the word "galaxy" is derived from ancient greek and "milky way" is an almost literal translation.
"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.