... led to the reliable calibration of Type Ia supernovae as cosmological distance indicators, thereby providing accurate measurements of the Hubble constant, of the linearity of Universal expansion, and of the MilkyWay's motion relative to the Hubble flow ...
... And, in fact, to have planets like Earth, you needed MANY generations of stars producing more and more heavy elements, gradually increasing the heavy element abundance of the MilkyWay Galaxy. ...
... Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the MilkyWay, which was translated into fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the twentieth ...
... About 150 molecules have now been detected in the vast clouds of gas and dust that pepper the MilkyWay, including such molecules as formaldehyde (embalming fluid), alcohol, water, and the two chemical building blocks of the simplest amino acid. ...
... If this is proven correct, it will increase by almost ten times the probable number of habitable planets in the MilkyWay. home | about us | news | ...
... The second section of the survey consisted of seven multiple-choice questions on space-related science: day and night, seasons, phases of the Moon, relative sizes of the planets, stars, the MilkyWay galaxy, comets. ...