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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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Bending Space-Time: General Relativity

STEMe

In the late 17th century, Newton's insights into gravity laid the foundation for classical mechanics and provided a broad architecture to comprehend the movement of objects on Earth and around the universe. This is where Einstein arrived and changed the state of physics forever.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. I’m not going to a physical campus. Yet many of the students want more than that, too.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. When I was younger, I always loved math and science.