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Ask an Astronomer for KIDS! - Why does Earth spin?
Earth spins because of the way it was formed. Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a huge cloud of gas and dust started to collapse ...
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Ask an Astronomer for KIDS! - Why does Earth spin?
This is similar to what you see when skaters pull in their arms and spin faster. As material gathered in more closely to form a planet, like Earth, ...
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Multiwavelength Small Magellanic Cloud - Irregular Galaxy
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy and a companion to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Unlike spiral and elliptical galaxies, ...
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Cool Cosmos
So, in one year light travels a distance of about 5880000000000 miles or 9460000000000 kilometers or 63240 A.U.. This distance is 1 light-year. ...
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Infrared Zoo Gallery - Leopard Gecko
This cold blooded gecko cannot generate his own heat. Instead, he takes on the temperature of his environment. Notice in the infrared images, ...
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Cool Cosmos
The Infrared World: More then your eyes can see. ... Infrared - More Than Your Eyes Can See. System Info. Click For 56K. Download: high-band or low-band ...
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Infrared Yellowstone Lesson 1 - The Invisible Yellowstone National ...
Please note that the infrared images of the geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park were taken from quite a distance away and the temperatures ...
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Ask An Infrared Astronomer: Infrared Radiation
Infrared (IR) radiation is simply one of the many types of 'light' that comprise the ... All objects that are not at absolute zero emit infrared radiation. ...
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Ask an Astronomer for KIDS! - Does Uranus have rings?
They appear brighter in the image to the left because the image has been artificially brightened by a computer. The rings may have been formed by the break ...
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Cool Cosmos
All about infrared astronomy from NASA's infrared astronomy center: Discovery of infrared, what is infrared and infrared astronomy, history, the infrared ...
