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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 […]

Clusters 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. […]

What Is A Galaxy?

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. […]

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 […]

The Birth of Modern Astronomy

The birth of Modern Astronomy marks a radical, momentous shift in our understanding of the world, the universe, and reality. It was the work of the fathers of modern Astronomy — Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Brahe — that completely transformed our […]

Velocity — Average Velocity, Instantaneous Velocity, and Speed

Calculating Average Velocity or Speed If Shanatu travels 5km North in 1 hour, what was his average velocity? $\vec { v } =\sfrac { \vec {s} }{ t }$ In this case, which is actually fairly interesting, the average deonotes […]