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Exploring Galaxy Clusters
What if we were to travel beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy, and foray out into the galactic wilderness of deep space? What do you think we’d expect to find? Would we find galaxies spread out apart from one another,…
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A Peek at Supermassive Black Holes
There are few things in the universe quite as exciting as black holes. They’re in all the movies — I even wrote a post a few years ago on what the movies get wrong about them! Though some movies, like…
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The Different Shapes of Galaxies
By now, we’ve spent a heck of a lot of time exploring spiral galaxies. It makes sense — they’re certainly the most photogenic. Seriously. Do me a favor and do a quick Google search for galaxies. When I did, nearly…
