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Space
Space
Science
Monisha Ravisetti

The biggest galaxies live in our universe's supercluster 'cities'

A dazzling array of stars fills the black backdrop of space, so much so that there are more stars than black. They vary in size and depth, with shooting crosshair diffraction spikes visible on the larger stars.

If we took a scenic drive through every era of astronomy, we'd start somewhere among ancient humans wondering why there are stationary fireflies stuck in the sky. We'd travel through libraries with scrolls about how those fireflies are, in reality, siblings to our giant yellow sun, and then through rooms with books about how our entire world is somehow orbiting that sun.

Eventually, we'd wind up watching scientists discover the force of gravity being dependent on the fabric of spacetime, obtain images of iridescent galaxies other than the Milky Way and calculate the strict limits of supermassive black holes.

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