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Time spent in zero G changes the body: Astronauts come home with bone loss and muscle weakness. But what happens in their heads? To find out, researchers examined MRIs of astronauts brains taken before and after flight. They looked at 12 astronauts w

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Unit 95 Scientists Look Forward to the Past Can time travel really be done? Physicists think that travel into future is possible. Einstein's special theory of relativity, published in 1905, predicted that time should be elastic, stretching or shrinki

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But our time traveling isnt yet over. There is still the question of how the first galaxies kindled the very first stars. We are on a journey visiting the Dark Ages, a time over 12.5 billion years ago. The sight is spectacular. The sky is ablaze with

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Its extremely frustrating because this region, this time period holds within it, in some sense, the rose headstone of / galaxy formation. But there are clues as to what was happening inside those dense hydrogen clouds. Look back even further in time

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Imagine the disc of our galaxy, if you just took a disc of stars and put it there, gravity would tend to make this disc collapse/ into itself and it would immediately just fall together. That is not what we see with the galaxy. Whats actually going o

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All of the galaxies, all of the stars, and gas and dust and planets, and everything else that we can see with our greatest telescopes represent about half of one percent of whats actually/out there. The rest is invisible. It is mostly some mysterious

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They were once thought to mark the outer limits, but today astronomers believe the Milky Way galaxy is much bigger than what we can see. To understand why, we will travel to the stars of the outer galactic disc. Far from our usual place in space, we

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We are at a foundry here, and they are pouring molten iron from all machinery. And they are going to make parts for new machines out of that iron, so they are recycling yet, but all that iron was created and ejected into the cosmos by gigantic stars

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