There’s a digital version of the actual universe you can explore - no, it’s not a video game

If you own a PC equipped with vast amounts of storage, it’s yours for the low, low price of free

“You too can play with a digital simulation of the Universe stored in your PC” is not a caption that yours truly expected to write in 2021, yet here we are. (Image: Tomoaki Ishiyama, Hirotaka Nakayama, 4D2U Project, NAOJ)

It’s easy to forget, in this day and age of mainstream cross-media digital entertainment, that when we’re talking about “Marvel Cinematic Universe”…