12-20-2017, 08:19 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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"Star Wars" galaxy (link)
Hello All,
According to "Star Wars," all of the events depicted in the movies occurred "A Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"--a galaxy whose name was apparently never mentioned (although according to *this* https://scifi.stackexchange.com/que...xy-far-far-away source, a race called the Nagai referred to it as "Skyriver"), and:
Be that as it may, a real galaxy has been found which might plausibly be construed to be that cinematic island universe. A "twin" of our own galaxy, which like the Milky Way is a giant barred spiral with two satellite galaxies (see: http://www.newscientist.com/article...ght-years-away/ ), has been found 180 million light-years away...
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