Does ESB go against NJO?

So to clarify, the Rebels are above the galactic plane and looking at a nebula with a red star at its center, correct?

 

Oh, for cryin' out loud, just call it the big swirlie thingey with a shiny thingey in the middle!

 

Mandalore correct. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the red nebula from marvel 50.

 

I'm pretty sure IAmTheDarkside is correct. I seem to remember this being answered by an official source. Maybe it was one of those "Ask the Jedi Council" deals.

 

Yes, they were above the galactic plane but still within the galaxy, what they were looking at was a red star according to the ESB novel. We see it has a nebula of gas surrounding the red star in the movie.

 

I couldn't tell ya. I haven't read the book. That sounds good to me though.

 

What NASA thinks on the subject:
July 24,1995 - Andromeda Galaxy
April 6, 1996 - Andromeda Nebula

Note, comparing apples to apples, using the same NASA source - Picture of the Day. NASA calls it both the Andromeda Galaxy as well as the Andromeda Nebula. They've called it the Andromeda Nebula after they've called it the Andromeda Galaxy. Furthermore, this is (one of) the premier aeronautics and space institution in the world. Suffice it to say, either one is a valid name for its true name, "M31."

And from encyclopedia entry:

"Andromeda Galaxy,
cataloged as M31 and NGC 224, the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way and the only one visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also known as the Great Nebula in Andromeda"

It is neither fallacy nor appeal to ignorance to call Andromeda by its names.

 

Obviously Nasa can't make up there mind. Well ok if it's called Nebula now, instead of galaxy. I'll start calling it nebula.

Of course what is seen in the movie isn't a nebula/galaxy, but a red star with dust floating around it.

 

True.

 

It could be a protosystem. The star in the middle is just then growing in mass enough to attract all that dust, which then spins and incinerates, forming the actual star, then some of it drifts off the star, cooling and becoming rocky bodies in the system.

IT could be the galaxy (but this is unlikely due to its high rate of speed and it appearance - a galaxy would be much bluer on the outsides and redder in the middle)... remember, the galaxy doesn't just stop... it slowly peters away into deep deep space... they could be just at the edge of really deep space.

Or it could be a nebula or such.