https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years
I have a long-running fascination with cosmology, which is part of how this blog got its name.
If you live in a city, with its attendant light pollution, you likely have never even seen the Milky Way except in photos. If that's true you owe it to yourself to visit somewhere far from city lights where the pale glow of our galactic disk is visible to the unaided eye. Then imagine seeing not just our own galaxy but another galaxy in the night sky... (now click the link)
