In the vast mix of travel guides, the Milky Way always gets the shaft. What's new in the cosmos? What's the latest on those supermassive black holes? (Still dark, we presume.)
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This Sunday, UC Irvine cosmologist James Bullock takes viewers
to infinity and beyond (well, across 100,000 light-years, to be more
precise) as he co-hosts the National Geographic Channel's television
special, Inside the Milky Way. It's nerd-TV at its finest, featuring a 3-D state-of-the-art
CGI model of the galaxy, a look at how stars emerge and die and a hunt for life way beyond our planet.
Bullock is a professor of physics N astronomy at UC Irvine and the director of the
five-campus Southern California Center for Galaxy Evolution.
Inside the Milky Way is scheduled to be shown at 9 p.m. PT/ET, but check your local listings.
