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    If it was found out that other galaxies are not moving further, and further away from us quickly.. This would cause the Big Bang Theory too lose its credibility. Also if many other pieces of evidence were found out to be untrue , I believe this theory would lose much of its credibility. The first part of this theory, I will be discussing my main point, which is whether galaxies are moving away from us or not and at what speed. According to Hubble's law, the universe has been expanding since…

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    Babylonian Research Paper

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    the sky, according to Dawdlez, “Back then, astronomy had quite a significant mystical component so these scribes also interpreted omens for the king and warned him about potential future events. Afterwards the records were archived so that future astronomers could use them to learn to make their own observations.” It was celebrated in Babylonian culture to seek aid…

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    kinds. Theoretical astrophysicists are trying to understand the physical processes while observational astrophysicists test theories to explain how our universe works (academicinvest.com). Although they have their differences, astrophysicists and astronomers are quite similar. Astrophysicists, however, tend to apply physics to their work more often than not, hence the title, “astrophysicist” (curious.astro.cornell.edu). Astrophysics isn’t a new thing. In fact, astronomy and astrophysics…

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    delivers high quality pictures because it travels above the Earth’s atmosphere so nothing destructs the lights travels into it and also the developed instruments made it able to observe near-infrared and near-ultraviolet light than what human can. Astronomers studies, observe and make the estimation based on the pictures. Those clear and sharp pictures have contributed on making more than one million of observation, and more than 10,000 scientific articles have been published based on Hubble…

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    Finding Self, Whitman’s Way: The One Among the Crowd “The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day; The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme-myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated, yet part of the scheme” (Whitman. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.). Walt Whitman was a graceful, yet outlaw poet that pushed the boundaries ink and paper. Whitman’s works were a journey of finding self through the natural world and his relation to the world, along with cleaver wording that…

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    The Allen Telescope Array

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    Even some of the astronomers on the team that found the possible signal around the vicinity of HD 164595 think that there is more of a prosaic explanation. The best explanation so far is that the Russian military satellite caused the signal. It has done similar things like…

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    Career and College Research Paper “The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.” (Epsy). Meteorology is the study of climate change and weather, another word for them would be…

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    Boyle develops a story of an astronomer, who is constantly devoted to his work of discovering what the heavens may hold, his wife, the recipient of his lack of affection, and a plumber, who is used as a contrasting piece to the astronomer through his down-to-earth methods. The author uses key phrases to place the…

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    sun faster than all the other planets. Mercury is an extremely interesting planet in our solar system. Ancient people who lived in Mesopotamia(current day Iraq) called the Sumerians, first saw the planet Mercury in 3rd millennium B.C. Many old astronomers had trouble finding Mercury in the sky with their telescopes because Mercury only appears on the horizon right before dawn and right before dusk. Early civilizations in Greece named the planet Apollo in the morning and Hermes in the evening.…

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    title : Women’s Status Affects Scientific Research Research Question: How did the woman status affect the works of Maria Winkelmann Kirch during the scientific revolution. Between the 15th and the 16th century, Maria Winkelmann Kirch became a German astronomer regardless of the obstacles that faced many female scientists. Winkelmann strongly believed that she equally deserved the type of education that the men in general received. Even though her status left her high and dry in terms of getting…

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