Marvel-Inspired Astronomy Question

[dewline]

What's 60,000 lightyears away and yet can be called a "galaxy"? In the real universe, specifically?

Has Galador been placed in the Sag DEG thanks to Infinity # 1?

FYI: Additional info on the Sagittarius DEG here at solstation.com.

Comments

[seawasp]

I try not to think too hard about comic-book numbers. I'm surprised there WAS something close enough that you could handwave it to fit.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You can thank or blame the ghost of Mark Gruenwald and the still-living Eliot Brown for encouraging the mindset in my skull where Marvel's concerned.

Quite probably, E.E. Smith was one of their inspirations in turn.

[seawasp]

I note the first collision with the Sag DEG is about 2 billion years ago -- when "Lundmark's Nebula", AKA the Second Galaxy, was supposedly colliding with our own...

[spross.livejournal.com]

I'd be more worried about where the Dire Wraiths are!?! ;-)

On the off-chance you're not joking...?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

As they're an offshoot of the Skrulls, Andromeda Galaxy for them originally. Where they re-settled was described as a "Dark Nebula" hiding a "black sun" that seemed particularly suited to their magickal practices on the planet we know as "Wraithworld".

Nowadays, though, the "Wraithworld" orbits the same star as Galador per events in Annihilators. Which I've yet to read.

What that means for events in Infinity...?

[seawasp]

And Wraithworld was so hideous that GALACTUS couldn't handle it.

[seawasp]

Also: My ROM collection was destroyed in a flood years ago, and of course it's never been re-issued so I can't check, but -- where was it said that they were related to the Skrulls? I certainly don't recall any link, and their shapeshifting and powers were so different it would never have occurred to me.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

ROM # 50, I believe...?

[seawasp]

Quite a ways in. Obviously a retcon, which is probably why I don't recall it; the mythology and origin of the Wraiths had been so long established by that point that trying to fit them into the Skrull background just didn't work for me.

There was one other old story retconned into ROM continuity, from one of Marvel's old 1960s-early 70s "horror" comic series, in which a man discovers an alien diary which tells of an intended invasion of Earth.

Re: On the off-chance you're not joking...?

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Obviously the "Dark Nebula" is made of dark matter, and the "black sun" is a stellar-mass object made of condensed dark matter. Galaxies, even dwarf galaxies, likely have substantial amounts of dark matter, so this all makes sense!