If Technology Fails Us, We'll Need the Stars
If our GPS ever stops working, the stars are our main fallback.
Articles tagged "milky way"
This Is What Happens When Galaxies Collide
The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way and there's no escape.
Why Our Dark Matter Ghost Hunting Expeditions Might Be Failing
Dark matter is thought to be the ghosts that helped build the structured universe, ghosts that the universe _needed_ to make galaxies happen. I say "ghosts" because dark matter doesn't interact with the universe in ways beyond gravity; the electromag…
The End of Time... and Back
Like the Eames' "Powers of Ten":http://www.powersof10.com on meth (and slightly more educational), _The Known Universe_ takes you from the earth to the far reaches of time and space, mapping every known satellite, star and galaxy all the way out to "…
