Astronomy 2021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Immanuel Kant, Dark Energy, Kuiper Belt
5 Apr 2016
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January 18th, 2016 - the universal context of life - read this shit again * key notes. He ended the ancient distinction between earth and the heavens, making it possible to think of both as part of one universe: three ideas are especially important in framing the universal context for everything. The same physical laws that operate on earth operate throughout the universe. Thus we are not the centre of the universe. 3. 2 the structure, scale, and history of the universe. What does modern science tell us about the structure of the universe: our cosmic address. Solar system the sun and all the material that orbits it, including the planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets. Milky way galaxy is our galaxy, more than 100 billion stars; our solar system orbits the galactic center once every 230 million years. Our milky way is one of the two largest among the 40 galaxies in the local group.
