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3x more flaming gas bags out there than thought

It appears the universe maybe more crowded than we thought...

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Red dwarf stars — about a fifth the size of our sun — burn slowly and last much longer than the bigger, brighter stars, such as the sun in the center of our solar system, said Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum. His study looks at how many red dwarfs are in elliptical-shaped galaxies.

Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, van Dokkum and a colleague gazed into eight other distant, but elliptical, galaxies and looked at their hard-to-differentiate light signatures. The scientists calculated that elliptical galaxies have more of those dwarf stars. A lot more.

"We're seeing 10 or 20 times more stars than we expected," van Dokkum said. By his calculations, that triples the number of estimated stars from 100 sextillion to 300 sextillion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/...i_starry_night

I thought this was about the last election. :har::har::har:

Sextillion
:haha:

You might be a RedNeck if you've ever uttered the phrase
"I'm not haven' Sextillion alls have a bath!"
:har:

Just wait for the next generation of technologies. And the next, and the next. † We'll be equally mind-blown by the discoveries. :yep:

I don't want to spend all night looking for an image of our galaxy being one tiny molecule in Ziggy's toenail, but if I had that image I would post it here.

† Cats, meanwhile, will remain totally unenthusiastic... :shifty:

I have my doubts about Scientists.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_difference.png

lol

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ZZZZaaaapp :o

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Surely it couldn't happen a third time now could it?

Hmmm :hmmm: more tests needed!

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ZZZZaaaapp :o

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:doh: Need government funding so I can find out how long this will continue.

Is sextillion a nice round number? :|\\