ASTR 5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mass Number, Kuiper Belt, Astrobiology
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Review questions: (3) major ideas of astronomy that helped frame the context of search for life in the universe. Raw ingredients of life should be found on other worlds: the same physical laws that operate on earth operate throughout the universe: Current experiments and observations support newton"s conclusions that laws of made life on earth made life possible on other worlds. nature are the same everywhere. Its reasonable to think that the same process that: define and describe the various levels of structure in figure 3. 1. Earth is a planet that orbits the sun in our solar system. All the planets and their moons orbiting the sun and the countless small objects in it compose our solar system, which is part of our galaxy, the milky. The milky way galaxy, along with other galaxies, makes up a galaxy cluster, that with other galaxy clusters make up a local super cluster.