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• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
  Sports Science
  Geology
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
   
  

  Volcano

  A volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of ... > more
• Albert Einstein
  Black Holes
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Cosmology
  Sports Science
   
  

  General relativity

  General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It unifies special relativity and Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the ... > more
• Black Holes
  Cosmic Rays
  Stars
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Sun
   
  

  Gravitational wave

  In physics, in terms of a metric theory of gravitation, a gravitational wave is a fluctuation in the curvature of space-time which propagates as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or ... > more
• Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
  Eris (Xena)
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Eris (dwarf planet)

  Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), orbiting the Sun in a region of space known as the scattered disc, just beyond the Kuiper belt, and ... > more
• Jupiter
  Solar System
  Moon
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
   
  

  Jupiter's natural satellites

  Jupiter has 63 known natural satellites. Although claims are made for the observation of one of Jupiter's moons by Chinese astronomer Gan De in 364 BC, the first certain observations of Jupiter's ... > more
• Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Spintronics
  Spintronics Research
  Black Holes
  Quantum Computers
   
  

  Introduction to quantum mechanics

  Quantum mechanics is a physical science dealing with the behaviour of matter and energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles / waves. It also forms the basis for the contemporary ... > more
• Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Stars
  NASA
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  Andromeda Galaxy

  TThe Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Asteroid

  Asteroids, also called minor planets or planetoids, are a class of astronomical object. The term asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies that drift in the ... > more
• Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Sports Science
  Spintronics
  Black Holes
  Cosmic Rays
   
  

  Quark

  Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. (The others are leptons.) Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks and antiquarks are ... > more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  International Space Station

  The International Space Station (ISS) is a joint project of five space agencies. The ISS has seen the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, who spent 20 million USD to fly aboard a Russian supply mission ... > more

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