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    Gravity is a fundamental force that attracts objects with mass towards one another. It plays a significant role in the structures seen in the night sky by influencing the formation of stars and planets. Experiments show that gravity affects more material in molecular clouds than previously thought, helping bring matter together during the process of star formation. Gravity causes objects to take spherical shapes over time as they collide in space. It also determines which stars can be seen from Earth based on the planet's rotation and position in the solar system. Understanding both quantum physics and general relativity is important to fully comprehending gravity and its effects on astronomical phenomena.

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    Gravity is a fundamental force that attracts objects with mass towards one another. It plays a significant role in the structures seen in the night sky by influencing the formation of stars and planets. Experiments show that gravity affects more material in molecular clouds than previously thought, helping bring matter together during the process of star formation. Gravity causes objects to take spherical shapes over time as they collide in space. It also determines which stars can be seen from Earth based on the planet's rotation and position in the solar system. Understanding both quantum physics and general relativity is important to fully comprehending gravity and its effects on astronomical phenomena.

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    SavannaTaylor
    BrianDelgado
    HonorsAstrophotography
    15April,2016

    TheScienceOfStars

    Prompt:
    Whatisgravityandhowisitsignificanttothestructuresweseeinthenightsky?

    Asmuchas90percentofthematterintheuniverse
    isinvisible.Detectingthisdarkmatterwillhelpastronomers
    bettercomprehendtheuniverse'sdestiny
    fromScientificAmerican,byVeraRubin
    One of the most fundamental forces known to man, is gravity. Gravity is what attracts
    one object to another. For example, Newton threw an apple up in the air and it fell back down.
    This is because both objects had mass and gravity attracts anything with physical matter to any
    other object. Even thouh gravity is known for these big changes in the universe, its actually a
    weak force. If you were to fall gravity would be pushing you closer toEarth. Whenyoufallits
    usuallyquick,thisisbecauseofthesizeofEarthcomparedtoyou.
    Gravity is most commonly described as a mystery by many physicists and astronomers.
    To describe gravity is quite hard duetothefactthatitsaforcethatcannotbeseen.Sohowdoes
    one describe something that cant be seen? Its known that gravity is the force that holds
    everything to the Earth, but gravity is much more than that. Gravity expands out towards the
    even
    moremysteriousspace,affectingthestarsseeninthenightsky.
    As the Earth spins and rotates around the sun, the constellations, stars, and galaxy that
    can beseenbylookingupchange.Forinstance,thezodiacsigns.Onemonthoutoftheyeareach

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    constellation of thezodiacareint
    hesky,butthenextmonththeyarenot.Thisisbecausethesun
    is located in between the constellation and Earth and this blocks the view.
    ancient
    astrologers assigned each zodiac sign to the time of year when the sun blocks that constellation
    fromourview.Thesamecanbesaidforalltheotherconstellationsaswell.

    The Earth is traveling at approximately 108,000 kilometers per hour (67,000 miles per
    hour) in its orbit around the sun. Earths position inspace iswhatallowspeopletoseethestars
    in the sky depending on how far North or South of the equator someone is. This means that,
    places locatedatthesamelatitudewillseethesamestarsinthesky.Scientistsknowthisbecause
    of studies done based on how the Earth is spinning. These places see the sameskybecausethe
    Earthisrotatingaround thesameline.TheEarthspinsonanaxisthatrunsfromtheNorthtothe
    South Pole When living on the same longitude, these people will see a different sky at night
    becausethatisnothowtheEarthspins.
    There is no onemodelthatdescribeseverythinggoingonintheuniverse.Todescribethe
    universe there are two theories: Quantum Physics and General Relativity. Quantum Physics is
    used to understand the three fundamental forces, weak forces, strong forces, and
    electromagnetism. General Relativity is used for gravity in large scales.Inotherwords,General
    Relativity is large scale and Quantum Physics is small scale. To fully understand gravity you
    havetostartoutsmall.
    There was an experiment done at Harvard University where scientists created model
    molecular cloudstosimulatethecreationofstarsandhowtheycometobe.Someotherscientists
    tried to argue that the patterns that they were finding in sample clouds were due to the factthat
    gravity was bringing the material closer. The ending result they got was, gravity is more

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    significant than they thought in scenarios suchasturbulenceTheyalsofoundthatgravityaffects


    most of the material in a cloud not limited to just the materials in the core. This brings up the
    pointthatgravityisallaroundusandalloverspace.
    Now have you ever wondered why everything in the universe is a sphere?To start,after
    the big bang, everything was a mess flying everywhere in space until objects hit each other
    creating debris. The objects that hit other objectsoftenwouldcombineandgravityiswhatmade
    them round. The materials that usually crashed were heavier ,like iron, because they had a
    stronger force of gravity. The ironwouldheatupatthisceratedthecoreof manyplanetssuchas
    Earth. Thelighterlayers areformedaftertheobjectsgotbigger.Isntthishowpeopleareableto
    balance and stack objects? The heavier objects usually go on the bottom and the lighter objects
    areontop.
    In conclusion, the stars we see at night are due to the rotation of the Earth. Earths
    rotation determines what stars you will see in the night sky. Gravity is the force that brings
    objects with physical matter together. In order to fully understand gravity andhowitworksyou
    need to figure outtherelationshipbetweenQuantumPhysicsandGeneralRelativity,alsoknown
    as the small scale and big scale. This is all important because it also affects what we see in the
    night sky and how we are able to see them. The stars are close enough to be seen because of
    gravity.Withoutgravitywecouldnotseethestars.

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    ars.html
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    Science)
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    Synonym."
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