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    Astrobiology Spring 2015 Test 1 1. Name and describe five important steps in the formation of planets based on our current scientific understanding. a) Star and planet formation starts inside a collapsing cloud of gas and dust inside a bigger cloud called a nebula. Because of gravity pulling materials in the collapsing cloud closer together, the center of the cloud gets increasingly more compressed and because of this get hotter. The dense hot core of this collapsing cloud becomes the kernel of a…

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    While there she finds out that they were facing extinction. For their kindness she convinced her father, Emperor Grypas, to uplift them. Fifteen Thousand of them were brought from Earth (the Pontikians called it Gaea) to a giant space station in a nebula. The Neanderthals repopulated, and were taught by the Pontikians how to read and write. They were also taught basic farming techniques and basic hygiene practices. The Pontikians also try convert them to their religion but it didn’t take. The…

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    Eliza Revell Big Bang Theory Task-Science 2015 10CH For a very long time the Big Bang theory has been one of the most talked about topics in science. Most astronomers believe that the universe began with a ' Big Bang ' They believed that it happened about 14 billion years ago. At that point in time, astronomers think that the universe was inside a dense kind of 'bubble' that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. They think it was…

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    For every field of study the reason behind it is to acquire knowledge. It differs in the form of morals, abilities and outlooks. Predominantly we study marine science to be enabled to function definitely in the marine science sector, so that the eligible individuals will have a vital level of theoretical understanding and practical expertise to institute a prosperous career in the marine sector with associated industries. Ocean is a diverse universe on its own with abundant extraordinary…

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    Eta Cars Research Paper

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    highest masses that only ten other known masses, such as the Milky Way, which is over 250 times mass of the sun, have a higher mass that The Eta Carinae. The Eta Carinae for just a few weeks got the second brightest star in the night sky. The Homunculus nebula is what surrounds The Eta Carinae, which is made of gas and dust. The Eta Carinae is supposed to explode in the next million years. To give The Eta Carinae radius a good look, look as if you put it in the center of our solar system it…

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    Try not to float away! Space is pretty big, 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 KM or 46 billion light years away to be exact. Who knows what is out there. It also has zero gravity so you probably would not be stable at all. Who knows what can happen. Why does this matter? Because space should not privatized. It should not be privatized because multiple lives have been lost while on space missions, it should not be ran by undercover organization that no one knows and last space should not be used…

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    In the time of Slavery, Harriet Ann Jacobs expresses the life of a slave girl through a personal narrative. We know this because there are no insights of anyone else’s motivations, only Linda’s, the main character. Even though Jacobs is the main character of the story, she uses a retrospective narrator to play herself, and she looks back to her life to offer understanding and reflection. This allows Jacobs to foreshadow what will happen. Though this is a personal narrative about the author,…

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    Giant Impact Theory

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    What is the moon? How was it made? The moon is a large celestial object that is orbiting around the Earth. It takes around 23.7 days to rotate around the Earth fully. The moon's gravitational pull can be so strong it is able to control the tides in the ocean. There's many theories about how the moon was formed. For example, one of the ways scientists feel like the moon was made is that a mars like object collided with earth. While earth was still forming a big chunk of it came off and was…

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    brightest galaxies in the sky. The galaxy messier 83 was founded in February 23 in 1752 by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Lacaille found the Messier 83 galaxy off of the Cape of Good Hope. In March of 1781 Charles Messier added this galaxy to his catalog of nebulas objects, known as the messier catalog. Later on June 6, 2006 the Galaxy Evaluation Explorer, from NASA, found that there were a large number of new stars on the outer rim of the galaxy, which was believed to be lacking in the material…

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    Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

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