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... the country, late on a summer night, you will see how the Milky Way got its name. There are so many stars, so close together and so far away, that they look like a creamy band across the ... .
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Astronomers think that the Milky Way formed out of the collapse of a large cloud of gas, similar in some respects to the way that stars form.
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From orbit, the Milky Way would look very similar to the way it does here on Earth. It would be brighter and you would have an easier time seeing the distinct stars, but otherwise it would look the same.
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The Milky Way was formed shortly after the big bang, like all of the galaxies. After the initial expansion, areas that were denser than others were pulled together by their own gravity ... stars.
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... Apollo. They were Ranger, Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor. Rangers 7-9 photographed the Moon up close before crashing on it. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ranger.html (See CDROM) http ... ://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html (See CDROM) Surveyor actually landed on the Moon to study its surface. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html (See CDROM)
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We are not sure how the planet Saturn got its name. When we look to mythology, Saturn was the Roman god of fertility and agriculture.
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... about you, but I find it hard to think in thousands of millions of miles. When we leave our solar system and think of our galaxy, the Milky Way, it is so much more immense that we have to use different ways to describe distances. So we use light years. That sounds like a measurement of time, but it is not. It is a distance. A light year is about six million million miles, and the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. We are about 20,000 light years from its edge ...
Navigation outside of the Milky Way wouldn't be difficult since we have reasonably good maps of objects like quasars that ... provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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... its name from an early English word for the soil beneath our feet. The ancients referred to it as "Mother Earth" because it provided everything we needed, just as our human mothers did. When the first astronauts circled the ...
How our Sun ends its life all depends on the amount of mass or stuff it starts out with. A star like our Sun has too little mass and will never end its life with ... the next closest star over 4.28 light years away, you can easily see that the Sun will have very little influence over the life of the other 400 billion stars found in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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