Month: September 2023
Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way
The discovery that we live in an ordinary galaxy, one of several hundred billion in the observable Universe, instigated a profound change in thinking about our place in the Universe. This first lecture covered the Great Debate of the early twentieth century as new telescopes and new ways of observing the cosmos put our Milky […]
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