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Maggie Koerth-Baker at Boing Boing has compared the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as the default wallpaper in OS X Lion. One of the site readers, David Kaplan, assistant professor of physics at the University of Milwaukee, has noticed that Apple’s Andromeda Galaxy is missing a few stars. Of course, Apple’s representation has been photoshopped and the company removed some stars and galaxies. For example, the professor found out that one of Andromeda’s big satellites (M110 for those keeping track) is completely missing.

Apple has once again altered the Universe according to their whim. They moved/removed many stars, and got rid of a whole galaxy. This is M110, which is one of M31′s [Andromeda's] satellites. The other big satellite, M32, is still there.

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#1 Comment By Emre SUMENGEN On August 15, 2011 @ 9:02 pm

OMG! This is not a scientific photograph of a galaxy, it's a wallpaper...

They can add a cow right in the middle, if they see fit.

What's wrong with that?

Better, what's wrong with all these people? Don't they have work to do????

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August 17th, 2011 at 11:40 pm