Space Fact - Milky Way Galaxy
Milky Way Galaxy. Home to planet Earth. The Milky Way is a part of a large group of galaxies known as the Local Group consisting of more than 54 gravitationally bound members. Most of them are quite small with the exception of Andromeda , the Milky Way and Triangulam . A few billion years into the future,these larger members will collide and eventually form a much larger galaxy nicknamed Milkdromeda . Now lets go much further into the future, about 100 billion years from now. Imagine that somewhere within Milkdromeda, a habitable planet gives rise to a civilization of intelligent beings much like ourselves. At some point they invent a powerful new telescope which will allow them to explore space beyond the galaxy. But as they peek through the telescope, they find nothing. Nothing but darkness and empty space. They come to understand that they exist within a seemingly endless and almost informationless void. Milkdromeda would appear to be a bastion of light in a sea ...