Word: cosmically
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...things and owning things and having things and not being able to let go of things, is the opposite of compassion--of not thinking of yourself all the time. These are the two sides--the good force and the bad force. They're the simplest parts of a complex cosmic construction...
...measuring the size of the Milky Way. Using bright stars called Cepheid variables as standardized light sources, he had gauged the galaxy as being an astounding 300,000 light-years across--10 times as big as anyone had thought. Yet Shapley claimed that the Milky Way was the whole cosmic ball of wax. The luminous nebulae were, he insisted, just what they looked like: clouds of glowing gas that were relatively nearby...
...Austrian-American physicist Victor Hess detects radiation coming from outer space; it is later dubbed cosmic rays...
...Belgian astronomer and priest Georges Lemaitre proposes that the universe began with a big bang, the explosion of a highly condensed mass, which he refers to as a "cosmic...
...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...