There are quite a
few cosmic phenomenon that have captured the imagination of mankind since
space travel and the sciences of astronomy and cosmology have come of age in
the past 50 years. Furthermore, the more outlandish and implausible their
nature, the more popular they have become particularly among the
non-scientifically oriented individuals. This book aims to separate fact
from fiction in the following seven, which are in the forefront of such
phenomenon:
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PHOTOGRAPH:
The Hubble Space
Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of
100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a region inside the massive
globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million
stars. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 and 12 billion years old
and lie about 16,000 light-years from Earth.
