Astronomy Archive
Life Story of the Universe
The Life Story of the Universe is the history of the cosmos, and the many phases, dynamics, and stages that it went through from its inception to its present state. At present we can trace the life story of the […]
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The Scale of the Universe
The Scale of the Universe is literally astronomical. Distances in the universe are large. So large that we have an entirely different set of units to grasp their distances. It is unreasonable to consider cosmic distances in our largest units […]
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The Milky Way
The Milky Way is our home galaxy. A spiral galaxy that is home to more than 200 billion stars, and is about 100,000 light-years across (making it one of the largest galaxies in the Local Group supercluster). The nucleus of […]
Continue ReadingClusters and Superclusters of Galaxies
In the same way that stars come together to form greater cosmic structures, galaxies also arrange themselves into Clusters and Superclusters of Galaxies. These range in size from only a handful of galaxies in a cluster, to a few thousand. […]
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A Galaxy is a large structure in the universe composed of a multitude of stars. All are bound together in cyclic motion within the gravitational forces of the galaxy — which often have a massive black hole at their center. […]
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The Universe As A Power Generator
One of the ways that we can conceive reality, which is completely accurate according to certain facts, is to describe the Universe as a Power Generator. Every cosmic structure at every scale of the universe generates power. Power of a […]
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