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Cosmology Demystified
That has got to be the single strangest post title I’ve ever written. Of all the whacky branches of science out there, cosmology almost takes the cake — second only, I think, to the downright trippy world of quantum mechanics.…
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What are Seyfert Galaxies?
Meet NGC 1566, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax. To the human eye, this galaxy looks almost like any other spiral: It has a central nucleus and spiral arms, and it’s full of gas and dust. As an…
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Eclipsing Binary Stars
Imagine a frisbee. At the center of this frisbee lies the sun — our sun, for simplicity’s sake. And sprinkled around the surface of its disk are all nine…excuse me, eight…planets of the solar system, plus the dwarf planets, asteroids, moons,…
