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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
Galaxy
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A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust, and dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias, literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way.
Etymology
The word galaxy derives from the Greek term for our own galaxy, galaxias ("milky one"), or kyklos galaktikos ("milky circle") due to its appearance as a "milky" band of light in the sky. In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so that the baby will drink her divine milk and will thus become immortal. Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away and a jet of her milk sprays the night sky, producing the faint band of light known as the Milky Way.
In the astronomical literature, the capitalized word "Galaxy" is often used to refer to our galaxy, the Milky Way, to distinguish it from the other galaxies in our universe. The English term Milky Way can be traced back to a story by Chaucer c. 1380
Distinction from other nebulae
A few galaxies outside the Milky Way are visible in the night sky to the unaided eye. In the 10th century, the Persian astronomer Al-Sufi made the earliest recorded identification of the Andromeda Galaxy, describing it as a "small cloud". In 964, Al-Sufi identified the Large Magellanic Cloud in his Book of Fixed Stars; it was not seen by Europeans until Magellan's voyage in the 16th century. The Andromeda Galaxy was independently noted by Simon Marius in 1612.
In 1750, Thomas Wright speculated (correctly) that the Milky Way is a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
Edwin Hubble
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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.
Edwin Hubble is also known for providing substantial evidence that many objects then classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. American astronomer Vesto Slipher provided the first evidence for this argument almost a decade before.
Discoveries
The universe goes beyond the Milky Way galaxy
Edwin Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson Observatory, California in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest. At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way Galaxy. Using the Hooker Telescope at Mt. Wilson, Hubble identified Cepheid variables (a kind of star that is used as a means to determine the distance from the galaxy – see also standard candle) in several spiral nebulae, including the Andromeda Nebula and Triangulum. His observations, made in 1922–1923, proved conclusively that these nebulae were much too distant to be part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside our own. This idea had been opposed by many in the astronomy establishment of the time, in particular by the Harvard University-based Harlow Shapley. Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on November 23, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
From 11/23/1924 to 9/25/2015 is 90 years 10 months 2 days
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/AABF14.txt
Simpsons Bible Stories [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 4-Apr-1999
% The office work is interrupted when frogs rain down from above.
% Through a hole in the roof, Lisa and Milhouse dump more frogs.
% Although procuring the frogs took all of their money, they're
% confident the plague will force Pharaoh to let their people go.
%
% Alas, Pharaoh just sits down to a heaping plate of frogs' legs.
Skinner: These are the juiciest frogs I've ever eaten. Ra has rewarded my cruelty to the slaves.
Lisa: It's a plague, you moron! And we got lots more planned -- and there's nothing you can do about it!
[Maybe there is. Wiggum takes the two to the pyramid, where he shoves them down a shaft]
Wiggum: So long, kids! Give my regards to the British Museum.
[laughs as the top of the shaft is sealed]
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Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorance
Dictionary.com
ignorance
lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:21 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 25 September 2015
