How about Milky Ways? Enough with the chocolate talk‚ let’s talk galaxies. There are four different types of known galaxies in the world. Those galaxies are Spiral galaxies‚ Elliptical galaxies‚ Irregular galaxies‚ and Quasars. The reason there are four different types‚ is because they are classified by different characteristics. The Spiral galaxy is one that should be important to us humans‚ because we live in one. Spiral galaxies are thin and structured with four sweeping arms. They are so humongous
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In Douglas Adams’s novel‚ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‚ Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect traverse an imperfect galaxy plagued by a lack of individuality. In The Seven Deadly Sins Today‚ Henry Fairlie ventures that this galactic epidemic correlates to the transmission of immorality throughout the world. Douglas Adams utilizes satire and characterization to demonstrate how the human condition is flawed. Furthermore‚ Henry Fairlie calls upon the archetypal seven deadly sins to criticize human banality
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compare and contrast the film‚ Clash of the Titans‚ to the story of Perseus. Andromeda and Perseus Essay : The Story begins with Andromeda and Perseus. There are many Similarities and differences between what happens in the movie “Clash of the Titans” and the actual myth about Andromeda and Perseus. The three main similarities between the movie and the myth are that in both‚ Perseus is helped to defeat Medusa‚ Perseus threw Medusa’s eye‚ and in both the movie and the myth Andromeda’s mom compares
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receiving the acceptance of Godly actions‚ Perseus gets his share of supernatural aid consisting of a helmet‚ sword‚ and shield along with a message from Zeus that they will someday save his life. [Crossing of the First Threshold] Perseus learns of Andromeda and her situation‚ she cant marry unless her potential husband successfully answers a riddle‚ and any man who answers the riddle incorrectly is burned crucified in public. He believes he can’t turn back‚ for he has been on a quest to save the goddess-like
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entry in the largest repository of knowledge in the Universe. This repository is the namesake of the story‚ containing in a handheld format information on every planet‚ species‚ custom‚ and object in the Universe‚ is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Hitchhiker’s was a hit the instant it aired‚ and the novel version became the number one bestseller in the United
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The constellation i choose is Andromeda because i think that it’s myth it’s very intersting.Andromeda is one of the 48 listed by the 2nd-century Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern constellations.. Located north of the celeatial equator. Andromeda is most prominent during autumn evenings in the Nothern Hemisphere‚ along with several other constellations named for characters in the Perseus myth. Because of its northern declination‚ Andromeda is visible only north of 40°
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Nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust‚ hydrogen‚ helium and other ionised gasses. The discovery of nebula goes back to the early 1600s. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovered the Orion Nebula in 1610 using a refracting telescope. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc used this telescope to observe the skies‚ for example‚ it was used to observe Jupiter’s moons as well as other aspects of space‚ including nebulae. The discovery of the Orion nebula was revolutionary. While it was Nicolas-Claude Fabri
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achievements in the study of Astronomy before his death in 1953. Among those was his discovery of galaxies outside of the Milky Way‚ the expanding universe‚ and overseeing the construction of the Hale Telescope. Because of his major contributions to the study of Astronomy‚ the Hubble Space Telescope was named after him in 1990. One of Hubble’s first discoveries was that there are other Galaxies outside of our Galaxy‚ the Milky Way. In the 1920s‚ the small‚ diffuse patches in the sky were termed nebulae‚
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birth of modern cosmology. He discovered that the Andromeda galaxy was in fact a separate galaxy from the Milky Way. By comparing various photographs taken over several nights and measuring the Cepheids and their luminosities‚ Hubble’s discovery changed the way we view the universe today. However‚ this was not the only discovery Hubble made that aided in the development of modern cosmology. In 1929‚ Hubble’s research of Andromeda and other galaxies led to a dramatic discover concerning the size of
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Chapter 15 (23): Black Holes a) 15.1: Principle of equivalence (1) The Principle of equivalence: Idea that life in a free falling laboratory and life with no gravity is equivalent. ii) 15.1.2 Gravity or acceleration: (1) In space shuttle it appears as though there is no gravity or force but in reality everything from the shuttle to the pencil inside the shuttle is continuously falling but cause it’s all at the same speed it appears as force less. b) 15. 2 Space-time and gravity (1) Einstein
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