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domingo, 26 de septiembre de 2010

Vocabulary # 12: Galaxies and Beyond

Galaxy: A large group of stars held together by gravity
                          

Milky Way: Our home galaxy
                    


Spectrum: a band of colors mades when white light is broken up

                                              

Expansion redshift: The shift of a spectrum af galaxy toward longer (redder) wavelengths due to the expansion of space
 
                               


Big Bang: The beginning of the universe, when the density of the universe was very high
                           


Background radiation: electromacnetic radiation left over from the big bang

                            

Quasar: An extremely bright,extremely distant, high-energy source 

                                

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