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Friday Competition: Where is the EVE "galaxy"? 100mil isk up for grabs!
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Jorn Isu
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#41 - 2011-12-31 03:46:33 UTC
Chribba wrote:
Chribbaxy

The rich get richer.
Mai Khumm
172.0.0.1
#42 - 2011-12-31 04:30:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Mai Khumm
baltec1 wrote:
The ever so slight problem with your theory is we only have access to a tiny part of our galaxy. You can see the galactic core out in 0.0.


I'll give you that mainly because I don't actually pay attention to the background. More concerned with NOT DYING in 0.0...
Is there anything stating that we've mapped only a part of the galaxy? (with the exception of WH space)

Malcanis wrote:
New Eden doesn't have nearly enough stars to be a galaxy (The Milky Way has ~400 million stars). It's a small stellar cluster.


The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100,000-120,000 light-years in diameter containing 200–400 billion stars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

Kietay Ayari wrote:
Just to let you know, the area we play in, in EVE, is not a Galaxy. The 7500 systems we have access to are known as a star cluster, and are just a tiny tiny party of the overall Galaxy that that star cluster lies in. This is what I mean when I say the idea of even exploring an entire galaxy is really hard.

Edit >_> ops someone already explained that above me.

Also hooray!


Globular clusters, or GC, are roughly spherical groupings of from 10,000 to several million stars packed into regions of from 10 to 30 light years across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_cluster

Hey! Thanks for the definitions, BUT I stated your points out in my post. (except for the first) I just failed to actually mention the type of galaxy...

Mai Khumm wrote:
There is only 7500 star systems, unlike the usual billions...The size of it is very small...
Kietay Ayari
Caldari State
#43 - 2011-12-31 09:49:21 UTC
Mai Khumm wrote:


Globular clusters, or GC, are roughly spherical groupings of from 10,000 to several million stars packed into regions of from 10 to 30 light years across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_cluster



Star clusters are not a type of galaxy. Star clusers always exist within a galaxy. There are no lone star clusters between galaxies which is what you were implying by saying all of the galaxies listed were way to big to be new eden. Well you are right, they are all way too big to be new eden because a star cluster must exist within a galaxy. ;D

Ferox #1
Mirajane Cromwell
#44 - 2011-12-31 11:23:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Mirajane Cromwell
It's in alternative universe since Eve cluster doesn't have newtonian physics. So it could be alternative universe's "Milky Way" galaxy.
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#45 - 2011-12-31 13:48:46 UTC
More importantly: What planet is Skyrim set on? It has 2 moons so its not Earth but it also has humans and wolves and pretty blue butterflies.

Now, more than ever, we need a dislike button.
Mai Khumm
172.0.0.1
#46 - 2011-12-31 14:02:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Mai Khumm
Kietay Ayari wrote:
Mai Khumm wrote:


Globular clusters, or GC, are roughly spherical groupings of from 10,000 to several million stars packed into regions of from 10 to 30 light years across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_cluster



Star clusters are not a type of galaxy. Star clusers always exist within a galaxy. There are no lone star clusters between galaxies which is what you were implying by saying all of the galaxies listed were way to big to be new eden. Well you are right, they are all way too big to be new eden because a star cluster must exist within a galaxy. ;D



Not only is there star clusters between galaxy's, but there's also evidence of what's known as Intergalactic stars (that's stars between galaxy's... )

A simple google search can answer this, but I'll save you the trouble and post just some of the sites I dug up.

http://spacefellowship.com/news/art16985/astronomy-question-of-the-week-where-are-the-nearest-islands-of-stars-.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_star
So on this note, it can also be determined that New Eden could be a large group of clustered intergalactic stars. Thus not being on the map...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group


Can we get CCP in here to answer this themselves, since they created the damn thing???
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