How many galaxies has the SGC sent teams to?

[jnadreth]

The foothold aliens dialled a Milky Way address when they bugged out-so unless that was to redial to another address then I don't see them coming from another galaxy

[umopapisdn]

The foothold aliens dialled a Milky Way address when they bugged out-so unless that was to redial to another address then I don't see them coming from another galaxy

They might have nkown that the SGC couldn't provide enough power so they went to another planet to try and get home.

[Vala_M]

I don't think it was until "Fifth Race" the fact that Sg-1 had only been exploring the Milky Way galaxy had been sort of "retconned".
In the movie, a technician claims Abydos is on the far side of the known universe!

The movie is separate from the show in many ways, that is just one of them. And I don't think that they originally wanted the teams to explore other galaxies than went back on it.

Vala,

[Archaeis]

Depends on your definition of "sent".



@Archaeis - right on there. The Milky Way is a galaxy in the Local Group, as is Pegasus, Andromeda, etc. The Milky Way and Andromeda (and possibly Triangulum) are the main gravitational centers, which have their own satellite galaxies. The Pegasus Galaxies are a satellites of the Andromeda Galaxy, while the Magellanic Clouds are satellites of the Milky Way, if memory serves.

With regards to your pick for the Ida Galaxy, how did you come up with that? Galaxies are named by us based on the Constellation they are within. I would have thought that either the first or last (seventh) symbol in Ida's gate address would correspond with the constellation that the Galaxy lies in. I'll have to check "Rising" again, and see where the Pegasus glyph falls in the gate address. Maybe there'll be a corresponding constellation for the Ida Galaxy that'll help us narrow down where it is?


@ All - sorry: I'm an annoying combination of a nerd and an Astrophysics student.

Well, obviously Ida is the Asgard's name for their own home galaxy. The Sagittarius Elliptical Dwarf is my pick because it is near enough to the Milky Way for the Asgard to still have a significant influence here with their superior hyperdrives, and for the replicators to have gotten there given enough time through space. But still far enough removed for there to be a substancial distance for any goauld hyperspace jump.

I also is almost directly below our galactic core, giving the Asgard a great central position to span out to the Milky way in any direction.

Here's a pretty good picture of it's position:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galaxy.html

[Platschu]

Maybe these pictures will help:

The Local Group:
http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/aruiter/AS...localgroup.jpg
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/images/local_group2.jpg
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/images/local_group1.gif
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects...iagram_800.jpg
http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~pogosya...l_group_sk.jpg
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~ai32/lg.jpg

Pegasus galaxy:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jmi/images/ngc7479.jpg
They showed similar galaxy, when they made the Midway animations.

If I know well, the Asgard called their home Ida galaxy in Fifth Race, but the writers called it later Othala galaxy. Maybe they visited both galaxy. I think Orilla and Halla was there and Othala is the "official".

[umopapisdn]

If I know well, the Asgard called their home Ida galaxy in Fifth Race, but the writers called it later Othala galaxy. Maybe they visited both galaxy. I think Orilla and Halla was there and Othala is the "official".

They could have moved galaxies to get away from the replicators.

[Prior_of_the_Ori]

Or they made a mistake and meant to mention Ida....

I do remember myself asking JM about this and he stated that the Asgard only inhabited one galaxy... whether that means they have visited or explored other galaxies is something else. He never came back with an answer though unfortunately as he stopped posting here.

[daeda99]

I know in "The Fifth Race" they Asgard called their galaxy Ida which makes sense since Idavoll [really, Iðavöllr], in Scandinavian mythology is the plain on which Asgard is built. See the Wikipedia reference here. I find it slightly ironic that the "d" in Idavoll is either a thorn or an eth ("ð") which would not be a "d" sound.

At Ithavoll met the mighty gods;
Shrines and temples they timbered high;
Forges they set, and they smithied ore,
Tongs they wrought, and tools they fashioned.

from "a stanza early into the poem Völuspá" (see Wikipedia article).
Sorry, if I'm a little off topic.

I don't know if they stopped using Ida later in the series in favor of Othalla or if the Asgard really were in more galaxies than Ida. BTW, the omnipedia says Othalla is also a planet. I know some of you mentioned that.
The omnipedia also says Othalla is in Ida. hmm.... Now, I'm really curious.