The universe is trying to kill us. In Death From the Skies! our own Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, counts the ways the world will end. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
Ten Ways the World Will End | Natural Disasters | DISCOVER Magazine
- Asteroid Impact
- Solar Flare
- Supernova
- Gamma-Ray Burst
- Black Hole
- Alien Attack
- Death of the Sun
- Galactic Doom
- Death of the Universe
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