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  2. The Mysterious Universe - Wikipedia

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    The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan .

  3. Mysterium Cosmographicum - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Kepler's first major astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographic Mystery), was the second published defence of the Copernican system.Kepler claimed to have had an epiphany on July 19, 1595, while teaching in Graz, demonstrating the periodic conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the zodiac: he realized that regular polygons bound one inscribed and one circumscribed ...

  4. Warped Passages - Wikipedia

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    Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions is the debut non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, published in 2005, about particle physics in general and additional dimensions of space (cf. Kaluza–Klein theory) in particular.

  5. Mysteries of the Unknown - Wikipedia

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    A much more substantial 436-page excerpt paperback edition was released in 1997 by the Quality Paperback Book Club (New York) publisher, under a full license from Time-Life Books, Inc. Titled "Mysteries of the Unknown" (ISBN 0783549121), after its series namesake, it had its chapters roughly organized along the lines of the series volumes.

  6. The 4 Percent Universe - Wikipedia

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    Dark energy, however, is a substance or force responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe over time. [2] The significant focus of The 4 Percent Universe is on the developments of astronomical science in the 20th century, including the formation of the expanding universe theory by Edwin Hubble in the 1930s.

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  8. List of unsolved problems in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Origin and fate of the universe: How did the conditions for anything to exist arise? Is there potentially an infinite amount of unknown astronomical phenomena throughout our entire universe? Is the universe heading toward a Big Freeze, a Big Rip, a Big Crunch, or a Big Bounce, or is it part of an infinitely recurring cyclic model? Multiverse:

  9. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The physical universe is defined as all of space and time [a] (collectively referred to as spacetime) and their contents. [10] Such contents comprise all of energy in its various forms, including electromagnetic radiation and matter, and therefore planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.