The History of Galaxies

Thomas Curtis came to this conclusion after observing ten different novas take place within the Andromeda Nebula, all of which were an order of magnitude fainter than those otherwise observed in the sky. Thomas writes theories from way back in the 18th century were also generally proven correct. The Milky Way that we see in the sky is our galaxy, and it's a flat disk of stars that we can see from the edge. Glactic collisions are not the violent events that they might sound like. It is entirely possible for galaxies to collide, but for no stars to actually touch. A dwarf galaxy can consist of as little as a few thousand stars up to a billion stars. Most galaxies, such as

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