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What does the Universe look like beyond our Galaxy?

Posted by Ethan on August 9, 2012
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Image credit: Thomas Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech), 2MASS (2-Micron All-Sky Survey).

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” –Carl Sagan Our night sky, quite literally, is our window to the Universe. Well, it’s kind of a…