[thechat] Billions and billions...

[nate koechley]

Good catch. Good photo. Bad caption (and editing).

Paragraph 6 (of online article):
"The Chandra image shows [...] an area about 400 light-years by 900 
light-years."

So someone of the staff knows what's up, but the caption writer obviously 
didn't even read the article.

cheers
natek

At 08:30 AM 1/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Today's National Post newspaper carries a full-colour picture right across
>the front page -- above the fold, yet -- with a caption that reads, in
>part, "A NASA observatory orbiting Earth has provided this mosaic image,
>measuring hundreds of millions of light-years across, of the core of our
>galaxy."
>
>The offending caption is also included in the online version of the story,
>including a thumbnail of the image --
>http://nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020111/1098906.html
>
>I immediately sent a "shocked and appalled" letter to the editor.
>
>rudy