The New Tourist's Guide to the Milky Way
By Ker Than
Staff Writer
posted: 27 February 2006
06:48 am ET


The Irish novelist George Moore once wrote, “a man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

Astronomers sometimes follow a similar philosophy when they want to learn about our galactic home, the Milky Way.

Because Earth is located on the same plane as the Milky Way’s disk, astronomers can’t look down upon our galaxy to study it the way they can for others, like Andromeda. So for a long time, even basic things about the Milky Way, such as its shape and size, were difficult to determine.

Fly Through It

Take a quick tour through our galaxy and beyond, with stops at major attractions!


Time travel... See Full Article, | Source: Space.com

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

~Thanato

HHGG was a lot funnier. At least the books were. I don't go to see movie versions of books I loved anymore. They have generally proven to suck.

All versions of HHGTTG are different, the Radio shows are different from the Mini Seriese, the Books are different from both and the movie is different from all of them. I think the movie is very funny.

~Thanato

Maybe I will watch it. I just don't want to spoil the original exp of the books. I think they were the best.

Nice, thanks for The New Tourist's Guide to the Milky Way link Rykster.

The Books weren't actually the original form of Hitchhiker's guide, the radio show was the first scripts written, then the books, mini-series, and then a movie... Pretty sure that's the right order.