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1/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope Magazine.

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

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1/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope Magazine.
https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/aas/st_202308/index.php#/p/34

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0:00.0

Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

0:05.6

Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

0:08.6

In the Penly on unbrooding Galia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what

0:18.8

they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia.I. in the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Milky Way are our beautiful spiral

0:41.6

galaxy and drama. Spiral Galaxy, Galaxy, and Dramata, near but so far, a beautiful spiral Galaxy.

0:48.0

I welcome Dr. Ken Kraswell, the author of a book, The Alchemy of the Heaven Heavens searching for meaning in the Milky Way.

0:55.0

Now we're going to search for meaning in the Milky Way and it's apparent twin and drama in the new article,

1:01.7

cover article for Sky and Telescope magazine for the month of December.

1:06.0

Can a very good evening to you.

1:07.4

Thank you very much. This is a treat.

1:10.0

All these years we've talked.

1:11.7

You've been a big, big supporter of the Milky Way and I've

1:15.7

always puzzled about this idea the fate of the Milky Way is to collide with

1:20.0

Andromeda at some point in the next billions or so years.

1:23.9

However, before we get there, before we're all one,

1:27.2

we have a mystery of Andromeda

1:29.9

that makes it not very much resembling the Milky Way whatsoever.

1:35.0

I list the differences that need to be explained between the Milky Way and Andromina in your

1:41.8

reporting. Andromina has a massive metal-rich stellar halo. Andrometer has an agitated

1:48.7

puffed-up stellar disc. Its recent star bursts are inconsistent with anything that we see in the Milky Way.

1:57.0

We're both great producers of stars. We've got lots of gas and we make lots of stars but the last burst of star activity that's

2:05.8

significant to you happened two billion years ago in Andromeda. Now all of that

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