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eligible to become a stellar black hole, scientists can estimate that there are as many as ten million to one billion black holes in our galaxy alone. The stellar black holes are a lot more common because it is easier for them to form. One possible way for the creation of these massive black holes involves a series of chain collisions in a compact clusters of stars. This results in the buildup of extremely massive black holes, which then collapse to form medium sized black holes. These then…

The Life Cycle of Stars The life cycle of a star is an incredible, miraculous phenomenon that begins with just two elements: helium and hydrogen. The result is the all well known star that is seen twinkling in the night sky and also what lights up the day here on Earth. There are hundreds upon thousands of stars that take on many different sizes and colors. Depending on the size of the star from its birth, the star could take two paths at the end of its life: turn into a nebula leaving behind a…

galaxies in 1936. 11. Hubble believed that all galaxies start off as elliptical changed into spirals later on in its life, and finally becomes a spiral galaxy. We now know that once a type of galaxy forms it does not change shape. 12. Unlike the Milky Way, most stars in different galaxies have pairs. These pairs of stars are known…

The very idea of planets orbiting around stars would have shattered the views of many people throughout history. After the Copernican revolution taught us that the Earth is not at the center of the universe but rather planets orbits the Sun opened up the possibility that planets might also orbit other stars. About two decades ago, a new scientific revolution began with the first discoveries of planets orbiting around other stars, called exoplanets. An exoplanet, is any planet that orbits a star…

years old; the age of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 13.2 billion years old, with approximately…

Cosmos episode 13, “Unafraid of the dark”, begins by talking about the vast amount of scrolls and information that was kept in the library of Alexandria. Many of the books and scrolls were lost when the mob attacked and destroyed the library. This is shocking because of all the history of Ancient times that he's been lost due to the destruction of these books. Although we lost many discoveries, we as humans continue to learn new information about the universe. This begins the discovery of…

The Messier catalog began when Messier was searching in 1757 for a comet, whose return was predicted by Edmond Halley (Redd). Due to a mistake in Halley calculations, Messier was searching in the wrong patch of sky. In 1758, he discovered a fuzzy patch in the constellation of Taurus. After his repeat observation of the patch, and noticing that it had not moved. The nebula became his first entry in his catalog which he names Messier 1 or Crab Nebula. The second object in his catalog was M2, this…

The most famous celestial bond, except for the rings of Saturn, is the Ring Nebula or also known as M57. The Ring Nebula is 2,000 light years away and as seen on Earth the nebula looks like a donut-like ring wrapped around the middle of a football shaped cloud of glowing gas. It’s about one light year across and the glowing light the Ring Nebula produces is not coming from the planets but rather from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas forming intense ultraviolent light. As seen…

lighting has caused the stars to be harder to see now than ever before. Most children in the 21st century have looked up at the Milky Way in wonder at some…

the characters to search for meaning in their lives. The main hindrance to their own personal discoveries is materialism. Materialism prevents the characters from flying by "weigh[ing] [them] down" the way a peacock with "all th[e] jewelry" on its tail "weighs it down" (Morrison 179). The only way for the peacock to "soar" is to relieve itself of its "jewelry" much like Milkman, Hagar, and Pilate are only able to find purpose in their lives after shedding materialism (283,179). Milkman is in…