Superstrings <> Cosmic Strings

I have seen this article twice today, so I thought I'd make a quick post about it.

Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its image has been split into two, they maintain, by a "cosmic string." If this interpretation is correct, then CSL-1 - the name of the curious double galaxy - is the first concrete evidence for "superstring theory": the best candidate for a "theory of everything", which attempts to encapsulate all the phenomena of nature in one neat set of equations.

Not sure why the author of this article switched from "cosmic strings" to "superstrings" without a word of explanation, but these two concepts are completely unrelated. Superstrings are the extension of Quantum Field Theory of point particles to one-dimensional "strings," a theory which leads to highly speculative predictions about a 10 dimensional universe and may succeed in unifying quantum field theory with classical General Relativity. Cosmic strings are astronomical objects described by the rules of classical general relativity. The two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/ask/a11828.html