A computer simulation says spiral galaxies on a plane bang into each other and result in more elliptical galaxies. Ours hasn’t banged into anyone else yet, that the computer simulation knows about.
“It’s amazing. It’s like a little treasure trove that takes us back to the start of the solar system,” said Dr Ashley King, a planetary scientist who will work on the grains at the museum. “I can’t wait to get my hands on them and see what we can learn about the early solar system.”
… are ecstatic because they discovered …
well, nothing yet.
Here’s a great video by Cody’s Lab on the subject. Namely, there could be frozen microbes from Earth’s distant past in the permanately shadowed craters since the moon is so much more stable than earth.
If we scaled the milky way to the size of earth, that would be about 15km away.
If we scaled the observable universe to the size of earth that would be about 4mm away.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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