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You are here
Your motion through space, the stardust you are made of, and what passes through you every second.
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Earth and Moon
The thin shell of near space: the people living up there, everything in orbit, and what falls in.
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The Sun and its worlds
Our star and its weather, the planets, the rocks we watch, and the craft we sent out.
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Stars
The nearest stars, the light in your sky, and the birth and death of stars everywhere.
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The Milky Way
Our galaxy: its hundreds of billions of stars, the black hole at its heart, and our long orbit around it.
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Galaxies
Andromeda falling toward us, the trillions beyond, and the most violent events in nature.
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The cosmos
Its age, its growth, what it is made of, how it began and how it may end.
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