andromeda

Reading about these tests on monkeys in a biosafety level 4 facility reminds me of The Andromeda Strain.

Moreover, A good number are in the Milky way or the Andromeda galaxy, which is bound to collide with ours; plus the respective satellite galaxies of the Milky Way + Andromeda.

In fact our galaxy and Andromeda are on course to collide with each other in about 4 billion years (2).

The Andromeda Galaxy is not too hard to find: straight below the Big Dipper, a bit below the Milky Way.

But then, billions of years hence, all the stars will have realigned, the Milky Way will have combined with andromeda.

Edit: The original of the Andromeda image is a ~4.3 GB PSB (high-resolution Photoshop format) image.

For example, The Andromeda Galaxy is about six full moons wide as viewed from Earth[1].

It took the Kelvans 200 years to get from Andromeda to the Milky way.

That's why nobody is trying to save the starving children in the planets of the Andromeda galaxy, coz there's no feedback for it.

You can scale this to an even bigger level: when the Milky Way and the Andromeda will collide they will in fact mate.

There are an estimated 1 trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy.

This reminds me of a passage in The Andromeda Strain.

The title is the reverse of "Andromeda Sucks" in Norwegian.

Note that he did the music, not the video itself, which is taken from the demo "Spin"[1] by Andromeda Software Development.

Personally, I had read "Andromeda" in my early teens considering it being "just SF".

>when the Milky Way and the Andromeda will collide they will in fact mate Only inasmuch as two groups of people walking past each other in a desert counts as "mating".

Andromeda is about 2.5 Mly away, or over 80x the distance that Voyager would have had to travel.

Huh, but if light takes 2.5 million years to get to Andromeda, how does it take us a few decades?

The reddish, fuzzy, oblong objects that are a bit bigger are other galaxies far past Andromeda.