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What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 2: The Warped View


Move fast enough and the entire universe compresses into a searing, blueshifted cone of light aimed at your face. How relativistic aberration and the Doppler effect warp your view of the cosmos as you approach lightspeed.

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