Imagine trying to take a clear photo of flickering candlelight from across a football field — while standing in a swimming pool. That’s what astronomers face when observing stars through...
Imagine baking a cake… and ending up with a solar system. Sounds impossible, right? But that’s kind of what the universe did after the Big Bang. At first glance, the...
For decades, textbooks taught us a neat answer: the Milky Way spans about 100,000 light-years across. Case closed, right? Not so fast. What if that number you’ve heard your whole...