Bad Astronomy A new paper just published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal makes a stunning claim: There are 10 times as many galaxies in the Universe as we previously thought. At least. The total number comes in at about 2 trillion of them. Now, let me be clear. What the astronomers did was look at extremely deep images of the Universe taken in surveys, for example the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. That’s a lot of galaxies. Surveys like the UDF are limited. The astronomers who did this research had an interesting problem. The answer is two-fold. Those numbers change with distance. At the same time, these faint galaxies are easier to see close to us, and harder farther away. They calculated this for all kinds of galaxies, right down to really small ones with about a million times the mass of the Sun. They can then combine these two pieces of information: How many faint galaxies there are near us and how bright they are, with how many galaxies of a given mass are in a volume of space. NASA,ESA, H.
Sparks In Electrical Jelly Happy Place - The Latest Funny Videos, Funny Pictures, Funny Tweets, Funny Ecards and More! sub rosa Story vs Narrative vs Plot | Hack Text Nope... not synonyms. Image via Wikipedia I’ve been using the two terms ‘Story’ and ‘Narrative’ very frequently on this blog. As I look back, I realize that I may not have done a very good job defining them, or more importantly, the difference between the two. The goal here is to explain these concepts and how they relate to each other to someone completely unfamiliar with literary theory. Story A ‘story’ is, in simplest terms, a sequence of events. Let’s go spelling bee and use these two terms in somewhat defining sentences. The story of Bob’s Monday begins when he wakes up in the morning. Story is the entire sequence of events (though even that paragraph simplifies some). Plot Plot describes a set of events as they relate to each other. The plot usually concerns itself with specific points of the story and the pattern of their relation. The plot of Bob’s Monday begins when he wakes up in the morning. Narrative The concept of narrative deals more with how the events are told.
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