12 results for “galaxy”
Space & the Universe
Galaxies and the Milky Way
galaxy, from the inside. The shape of home The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy
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Space & the Universe
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Galaxies spinning too fast The first hint came in the 1930s, when the astronomer Fritz Zwicky
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Space & the Universe
The Big Bang
galaxies. How we know Three independent lines of evidence point the same way. First, galaxies are moving
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Space & the Universe
Black Holes
galaxy M87 it is wider than our whole solar system. Inside the horizon, as far as our equations
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Gravity
galaxies and the universe as a whole. Newton's universal law Isaac Newton's great insight
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The Human Body
The Brain
galaxy. It is reading this, and it is the most complex object known. Hold your two fists
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
galaxies at the edge of the observable cosmos. It is also one of the strangest things
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
galaxy, yet we know less about them than about any other worlds in the solar system
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Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
galaxy. Some may be rocky worlds with thick atmospheres; others could be water worlds with oceans
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Space & the Universe
The Life of a Star
galaxy. These clouds are bitterly cold, only ten or twenty degrees above absolute zero, and that
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
galaxy. Dying stars return their gas, now enriched with carbon, oxygen, iron and heavier elements, to the clouds
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Space & the Universe
Space Exploration
galaxies whose light set out more than 13 billion years ago. Space in everyday life Thousands
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