#186 - Norman k. Glendenning - Our Place in the Universe


Author or Editor: Norman k. Glendenning
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Pages: 223
Size: 7.04MB


Our small place in space | this planet Earth | together with Sun and other planets of our solar system and their many moons is located about two-thirds from the center of the disk-shaped galaxy that we know as the Milky Way. When we look toward its center on a clear night what we see is the faint luminosity of billions of stars that make up this galaxy.
There are other galaxies too, far away, that look to our naked eyes just like any other star. But they too contain billions of stars. From our vantage point on Earth, orbiting a rather insigni cant star that we call Sun, located in the Milky Way Galaxy in one of its many solar systems | we gaze in wonder.

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