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Television shows are like sports teams: Sometimes they just have an off season. (And sometimes they just dive down a terrible hole and get trapped forever.) When a science fiction or fantasy show has a terrible no-good year, it's especially noticeable, because the fantastical plot devices get dumber and the world-building gets sloppier. More »
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We only have five billion years left until the Milky Way galaxy crashes into Andromeda, our nearest neighbor. What will happen to us then? Because galactic collisions take place over millions or billions of years, the process isn't well understood. More »
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This star may not look like much, but in 1923 it changed our understanding of the universe forever. It showed us that the Milky Way wasn't a lonely island universe, but instead just one of billions and billions of galaxies. More »
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Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz have written two of the summer's biggest movies, Thor and X-Men: First Class. They're fast becoming the go-to writers for revitalizing beloved science-fiction characters. We talked to them about what they've learned so far. More »
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This awesome video, courtesy of the European Space Agency, takes us through the optical, ultraviolet, microwave, and infrared wavelengths to reveal our neighboring galaxy Andromeda in quite literally every possible light. More »
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We've got to come up with a better name that ‘Milkomeda' to describe what's going to eventually happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda merge. More »
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The M33 galaxy is a rare galaxy that's "face on" to us, so we can study its make-up. And it's also blue-shifted, meaning it's coming towards us. But it'll collide with Andromeda before it reaches us. More »
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War is hell. But an ultimate weapon is hella cool. More »
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Starships are the coolest kind of vessels out there. They travel faster than light, they encounter strange new worlds, they turn space into their playground. But what are the coolest starships of them all? After much careful deliberation, we've come up with our definitive list of the 10 greatest starships in all space and time. More »
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This is one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Andromeda Galaxy, seen in three different kinds of light: visible, infrared, and x-ray. These three very different views are then combined together to create one amazingly beautiful composite image. More »
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Suppose someone tried to relaunch Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. What would you change? Who would you cast? That's the question former Andromeda writer Zack Stentz posed in a forum, and former showrunner Robert Hewitt Wolfe chimed in with some suggestions. More »
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We wrote off The Gates after we saw the bland first episode. But ABC's new horror-soap opera has been getting better and better, and last night's episode was almost inhumanly entertaining. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Television used to be full of space skirmishes... that looked kind of bogus. And yet, they're totally beautiful and make our inner children giggle with excitement. Here's why we love the faux space battles. More »
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In an unholy blending of space porn and Felicia Day, the Spitzer Science Center has released a funny and informative PSA on colliding galaxies. In this mock behind-the-scenes video, Day explains to an explosions-loving filmmaker why we shouldn't fear Andromeda. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5390398&view=rss&microfeed=true So I admit it — I know very little about Andromeda, the Gene Roddenberry-inspired series that featured Kevin Sorbo in a tight uniform. I've seen a couple of episodes, years ago, and read bits and pieces here and there. But lately, I've gotten more curious — the show's writing staff includes Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Robert Hewitt Wolfe, plus Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz, who went on to work on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe. Plus the baddies are Nietzschean ubermenschen? So I'm determined to delve into Andromeda lore and become more of an expert. More »
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Long before Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda made it to the screen, the Star Trek creator made a show about Dylan Hunt, the man from the past. Here's an exclusive clip from Genesis II, which is finally appearing on DVD on Tuesday. More »
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Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may look benign, but it's really a massive cannibal, sitting surrounded by the undigested remnants of the galaxies it's eaten. European scientists have mapped the galaxy anew, and found stars that came from elsewhere. More »
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Has science finally caught up to the suspected discovery of a planet outside of our own galaxy from five years ago? Gravitational microlensing may explain the mysteries behind a 2004 sighting of something unusual in our neighbor galaxy of Andromeda. More »
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A faithful adaptation of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels would be nigh impossible, but the Syfy Channel's upcoming Riverworld miniseries plans to veer off into such uncharted waters that readers may not recognize it. More »
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Astrophotographer Tyler Allred took this amazing new image of the Andromeda Galaxy, which just appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune. Today's new space porn also includes Jupiter's shrinking spot, digitally-restored moon pics, and an exoplanet. More »
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