Here comes the data. We will visualize the scale of the top 10 largest galaxies in the known universe. The galaxies are so incredibly vast that they’re measured by how many light-years across they are. A light-year is the distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year, which...
The giant galaxy cluster, Abell 2029, houses galaxy IC 1101 at its core. At 5.5-to-6.0 million light-years across, over 100 trillion stars and the mass of nearly a quadrillion suns, it’s the largest known galaxy of all by many metrics. It’s unfortunately difficult for the Universe to...
Keep in mind that Fortran is almost as old as Cobol and, while it has evolved over the years, backward compatibility is prized and therefore we may find many features in the language that we might design differently if we were to start with a clean slate today. Although bugs are not unco...