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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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Examining the extremely small

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A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. MOF nanoparticles can act as carriers in drug delivery applications due to their highly flexible designs,” says Evelyn. It was an interest in astronomy that inspired me to study physics and become a spectroscopist.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve also built our groundbreaking symbolic computational geometry system that lets us flexibly describe regions for PDEs. We can also take a single video and “summarize” it as a series of video + audio snippets, chosen for example equally spaced in the video. But if you’re doing astronomy they can really matter. &#10005.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”.

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