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The Milky Way An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

Moiya McTier

In this approachable and fascinating biography of the galaxy, an astrophysicist and folklorist details everything humans have discovered—from the Milky Way's formation to its eventual death, and what else there is to learn about the universe we call home. After a few billion years of bearing witnes...

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It was written from the perspective of the Milky Way galaxy itself, detailing its life, from birth to a potential end of the universe, including galactic neighbours and collisions with Andromeda.

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This latest book is called the Milky Way and autobiography of our galaxy.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Astro-lore with Moiya M...

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Astro-lore with Moiya McTier

It was written from the perspective of the Milky Way galaxy itself, detailing its life, from birth to a potential end of the universe, including galactic neighbours and collisions with Andromeda.

"

This latest book is called the Milky Way and autobiography of our galaxy.

It tells its story from its birth to you know, what might happen when the universe ends it talks about its life Its adolescence and how it feels to make stars.

It hasn't happened yet. So the Milky Way is going it's only an autobiography up to today up to today.

So in the book I I frame galactic mergers as like Romance almost or or you know, like interpersonal relationships And so there are minor mergers and major mergers minor mergers happen between galaxies where one is much more Massive than the other and so I I think of what it's basically wings.

just came out Oh mid 2022 just just to emerge from Kovat.

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