Neil Degrasse's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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This episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Neil deGrasse states that “this adventure is made possible by generations of searches strictly adhering to a simple set of rules: test ideas by experiment and observation, build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence and see where it leads, and question everything. “ The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Earth’s closest neighbor is the moon, it has no sky, no ocean, or life. Mars has as much land as Earth itself. Jupiter is like it’s own solar system it has more mass than all the other planets combined. The Oort Cloud is leftovers from the formation of the formation of the solar system nearly 5 billion years ago. This cloud is something no one ever seen …show more content…
Each of those galaxies contains billions of suns and countless worlds. But the whole part of the Virgo supercluster forms a small part of our universe. Copernicus had a proposal that the Earth was not in the center it was just one of the planets that revolve around the sun. The universe is unbounded and the cosmos must be infinite. Ten years after Bruno was killed Galileo looked in the telescope and realized that he was right the Milky Way was made of countless stars and worlds invisible to the naked eye. The Big Bang happen on January 1st The first Stars burst into light on January 10th On January 13th these stars coalesced Into the first small Galaxies. These galaxies merged to form still larger ones, including our Milky Way which formed 11 billion years ago. A supernova is a blazing death of a giant star. Everyone on Earth is made of star stuff. Our Sun’s birthday is on August 31st according to the cosmic calendar 4 and a half billion years ago. Earth was formed from a disk of gas and dust orbiting the newborn sun. As the Earth cruelties began to form the tides were a thousand times higher than over the eons title friction within the Earth pushed the Moon

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