Scientists Find Doublehelix at Center of Milky Way

An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The part of the nebula the astronomers observed stretches 80 light years in length."

If you look REALLY closely

[Philip K Dickhead]

You will see a large, light absorbing, black monolith - howling Ligeti - in the center of the nebula.

Then again...

[brian0918]

Maybe that's why he calls himself "BadAnalogyGuy".

Latest News

[inKubus]

Scientists have discovered a restaurant at the end of the universe.

Re:Deep thoughts

[brian0918]

"But as far as science is concerned whatever may be beyond our universe is irrelevant because we have no way of observing it."

That may be, but I'm confident that some day we'll successfully explore the region north of the north pole...

Real Deep thoughts

[Silentnite]

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts

Haha, he makes me chuckle

Is it just me...

[agent provocateur]

or does anyone else see Cthulhu looking out at them from this picture... Come to think about it I see Cthulhu looking at me from most pictures ... oh there he is now...oh my god!! he's everywhere!!!

Re:Size is the greatest power of all...

[brian0918]

"What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe"

I guess that's why flying fish return to the water, they fear the unknown... Call it intelligent falling.

Re: Real Deep thoughts

[Black Parrot]

> Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

I see that you follow the philosophy of Obi Wank Enobi.

It's A Logo!

[NickFortune]

What I reckon is, in some higher space, the DoubleHelix Corporation created this galaxy and did the primary gen-eng work on our ecosystem. All they're doing is trademarking their products.

hmmm... would corporate involvement disqualify this as "intelligent design" I wonder...

Re:Journal link

[EmagGeek]

... and if we modulate the subspace fields around the magnetodynamic plasma conduits while simultaneously emitting bursts of tachyon particles, we can spin the double-helix around and make it do a little dance...

Proof of intelligent design? +5 Funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmmm... that wasn't there before!

Re:I was going to joke about DNA...

[Alioth]

What makes jokes funny is the way they are told. He didn't exactly tell it right. Here's the full thing about a horse having an infinte number of legs, and when told properly makes better sense, from /usr/games/fortune:

Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs (proof by intimidation):

Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in
front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an
odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even
and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of
legs. Now to show this for the general case, suppose that somewhere,
there is a horse that has a finite number of legs. But that is a horse
of another color, and by the [above] lemma ["All horses are the same
color"], that does not exist.

Glad I wasn't the only one...

[plorqk]

who thought of 2001 (and the Simpsons) when I read that headline.

Shape of space-time

[Anonymous Coward]

Shape of gravity,shape of space-time,Shape of magnetic field lines.They all have one thing in common . hexagonal

It's done procedurally!

[Cruciform]

So we start out with a strand of DNA, and the camera zooms out, and you see the cells, the organism, skip a few, then the earth, solar syste, galaxy, big DNA helix in space, and start over.

So if we're just in someone else's cells, how long until we're all wiped out in 'The Big Sneeze'?

An interesting coincidence

[BitterAndDrunk]

Doesn't everyone else find it intriguing that the distance between the sun and the earth is exactly one Astronomical Unit??

If that isn't a sign of an Intelligent Creator, I don't know what is.

*removes tongue from cheek*

Re:Light is fast, but not as fast as we think

[GMFTatsujin]

The sun is one astronomical unit away. (150 Million kilometers) 4280 years of walking. You'd have to have started walking about the time the first pyramid was built to get there by today.

Your estimate appears 50% short. You fail to take into account that in order to safely walk to the Sun, especially at closer distances, you'd have to walk only at night.