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Where will we all be in 100 billion years?
Posted by Ethan on August 23, 2012 
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” -Winston Churchill We’ve come a long way in this Universe. Over the past 13.7 billion years, we’ve formed the light elements out of a sea of protons and neutrons, cooled and expanded to form neutral atoms for the first…
Bring him to me!
Posted by Ethan on February 29, 2008 The Milky Way galaxy is a relatively big spiral galaxy. So is Andromeda. There are about 20 dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to us; combined with us, all of this makes up the local group. But Andromeda is moving towards us, and eventually, it’s going to merge with us. I’ll once again show you…
Galaxies are made exactly how, now?
Posted by Ethan on February 13, 2008 Last week, Jamie (my significant other) came home from work and told me about a conversation she had with her coworker, Chris. This week she asked another one, Miguel, whether he had any questions about Astronomy, Physics, space, etc. This week’s question comes from Miguel: What is a galaxy, anyway? Why does it look like…
