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    Martin. "Lakota Religious Traditions." Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA‚ 2005. 5295-5298. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 29 October‚ 2012. Yellowtail‚ Thomas. Native Spirit: The Sundance Way. Ed by Michael Oreon Fitzgerald. Bloomington‚ IN: World Wisdom‚ 2007.

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    Earth’s galaxy. Earth’s galaxy is called the Milky Way‚ but it’s not a candy bar! Stellar black holes aren’t the biggest‚ though! There are bigger black holes called “supermassive” black holes. These kinds of black holes have the mass of OVER A MILLION SUNS TOGETHER!!!WOW!That’s a lot of mass! Scientists have discovered proof that every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in the center! The supermassive black hole found in the center of the Milky Way was named Sagittarius A‚ and do you believe me

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    The Universe & Chocolate

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    Do you like chocolate? 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

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    PHYS1160 A black hole is a point in space where there is extreme gravitational pull‚ so extreme that light itself cannot escape. The strength of gravity is so strong due to the fact that an immense amount of matter has been contained in a small space. The existence of black holes was first theorized by John Mitchell in 1783. Mitchell accepted Newton’s laws of gravity and suggested that light escaping from the surface of a star would have its speed reduced due to the gravitation pull of the star

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    Mayan Astronomy

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    Mayan Astronomy Who were the Mayans? The Mayans were part of the Mesoamerican civilization and they lived around 2‚000 BCE and lasted through to the time when the Spanish explorers arrived. From 250 CE – 900 CE was when they reached the peak of their development. They are well known for a fully developed written language‚ numerical system‚ mathematics‚ art‚ architecture and astronomy. Where did the Maya civilization thrive? They inhabited parts of Central

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    closest full size galaxy to the Milky Way because of this it is known as our nearest galactic neighbor. The Andromeda Galaxy is also the only galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. At 2.9 million light-years from Earth‚ Andromeda is also the farthest object that can be seen from Earth. Andromeda is not only known as our closest neighbor but scientists also refer to Andromeda and the Milky Way as sister galaxies. Andromeda closely resembles the Milky Way in shape (spiral)‚ structure

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    Daffodils and Patterns

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    two very different objects the person and the cloud floating in the sky. The daffodils have a way of cheering him up with their happiness‚ which he sees by their dancing. The speaker is also amazed by how many daffodils there are. There is another simile in “continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way‚” which compares the shape and number of the daffodils to the stars of the Milky Way. This makes the distance and separation from the world a good thing. There are several

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    with curvy arms‚ smaller galaxies are referred as irregular galaxies. Galaxies don’t float through space‚ they are together in groups known as clusters‚ some clusters are large containing thousands of galaxies‚ and some are smaller‚ our galaxy the milky way it’s in a cluster known as the local group containing only fifty galaxies. Some time galaxies collide together mixing their stars and dust together this is an important step in the evolution and growth of galaxies. Probably there are more than

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    galaxies.Most theories assumptions: filled with hydrogen and helium‚‚Some areas were slightly denser than others. @ Our solar system is located at one of its spiral arms at the edge. Everything we see in the sky belongs to the Milky way. Milky way is of SBc type. It has roughly 200billion stars. Sun is 26000 light years far from the center of the galaxy. @ELLIPTICAL: Contains very little gas and dust‚ and the gas that is present is very hot and diffuse.

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    Astr100 Final Exam

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    b) Mercury- Has variety of terrains which includes crater free and heavily crater terrain. c) Europa- Is one of Jupiter’s moon which is very icy crust and a rock mantle. 4. Explain at least three ways Uranus and Neptune are different from Jupiter. -Three ways Uranus and Neptune are different than Jupiter is that first Uranus and Neptune are smaller than Jupiter. Next Jupiter is core is mostly made up of gas and Uranus and Neptune core isn’t. Uranus and Neptune are warmer

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