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    “Today, we will start our journey to attain cosmic consciousness. First, let us remember the privilege of seeing the wondrous sights in the solar systems, interstellar space, and the intergalactic space during the journey here across the Milky Way Galaxy. In essence, cosmic consciousness is an awareness of the connections amongst all matter in the universe. Furthermore, it is a state of achieving pure knowledge of everything in the universe here and now without having to travel anywhere.…

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    aboard the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, called the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), which was installed in February 1997 is Hubble’s main "black hole hunter’’. It is responsible for many black hole discoveries such as the black hole in the galaxy…

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    Stars Compare And Contrast

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    Laying on the fresh cut grass of your lawn, you watch the sun sink behind the mountains as day subtly fades into night. There is always a minute of darkness as the city holds its breath. No street lights. No cars. Just you and the sky and… the faint glow of a star. Seeing the first star that night, you make a wish and remember the first time you saw one. You still wonder what that speck of light is—How it got to be up there, why it sometimes is so bright and other times so faint, and how it…

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    Introduction The Matrix is a popular American-Australian science fiction movie that was first produced in 1999. The action movie depicts a unique dystopian future where the human-perceived reality is seen as a stimulated reality known as “the Matrix”. This stimulated reality created by sentient machines was designed to subdue the human population and use the heat and electrical activity of the human bodies as source of energy. A computer programmer known as “Neo” discovered the secret behind the…

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    A common English idiom says “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes there aren’t even words to describe a picture. That is the case for “The Pillars of Creation”. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The photo depicts a nebula with three towers of gaseous regions, hence the name; in a way, it is metaphorical. Fortunately, for the normal people in the world, there are no controversies that provoke unreasonable people. The article “Ways of Seeing”, by John Berger,…

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    Cameron Ross 11 October 2017 Mr. Weeks UW 111 Grit- Book Review The uncertainty of the world is what makes it the breeding ground for scientific exploration and discovery. There a multitudes of questions, left unanswered, whether it be the creation of the universe, or the complex in workings known as the human brain. One of these great anomalies is the question, how do people become successful? There are numerous ways in which one might answer such a question, from personal belief to scientific…

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    Pan Ku Case Study

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    Part A: 1. Where did the culture you have chosen originate from? The culture I have chosen originated from China. It was developed by Taoist monks a couple hundred years after Lao Zi who was believed to have been born in 571 BCE. 2. What is a brief outline of the cultural explanation chosen? China has a variety of creation stories but the most well-known one is about P’an Ku. Long ago there was a time when neither heaven nor earth existed. Everything was in darkness, unformed and unseparated…

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    A spiral galaxy is a certain kind of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral galaxies consist of a flat, rotating disc containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge.(Sloan) Spiral galaxies resemble spiraling pinwheels, nearly 77% of space consists of spiral galaxies. Though the stars and other visible material contained in such a galaxy lie mostly on a…

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    5.2. Deep Survey The Deep Survey will cover (at least) two patches of > 10 deg2 and objects down to magnitude 26. The objectives of Euclid’s Deep Survey is 1. to investigate galaxy formation with very high statistical confidence. 2. to obtain spectroscopic redshifts required to calibrate the photometric redshifts needed for the weak lensing experiment. 3. to support the calibration of the visible PSF (point spread function,…

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    1. How do humans owe their lives to the deaths of stars? • These stars created us occurring to science. 2. What's a nebula? • A cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and gas. 3. Explain the process by which a star is formed. • Gas and dust form in a size 10 times our solar system. 4. What creates a star’s heat/energy (use the words hydrogen and helium in your answer). • Burning hydrogen and converting it into helium. 5. What's the most common type of star? • Red Dwarfs. 6. Why do bigger stars…

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