This latest book is called The Milky Way, An Auto Biography of Our Galaxy. It tells its story from its birth to what might happen when the universe ends. I frame galactic mergers as like romance almost, or, you know, like interpersonal relationships. And so there are minor mergers and major mergers. Minor mergers happen between galaxies where one is much more massive than the other. So in the book... Did you like it? Yeah. Tell me. You're just holding an autobiography up to today. Up to today, yeah.
Is it time to update the constellations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen dive into astrophysics, folklore, and our ancient connection to the stars with astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Ph.D.
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