CageToday UFC Insanity is Just a State of Mind MMAWeekly Universe Facts: Fun/Interesting Facts on the Universe: All Fun and Games "Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of nature." - St. Albertus Magnus (ca. 1193-1280) Crab Nebula. The brightest astronomical event in historic times was the supernova of 1054, which produced the Crab Nebula. Since the invention of the telescope, no supernovae have been observed within our galaxy. The telescope was invented in 1608 when spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey's apprentice was playing games. The philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was the first person to propose that what we now call galaxies lay outside the Milky Way and were indeed galaxies (or "island universes", as Kant called them) in their own right. As late as 1820, the universe was thought by European scientists to be 6,000 years old. The Earth is rotating on its axis at a rate of 460 metres per second at the equator, and is orbiting the sun at a rate of about 30 kilometres per second. Globular cluster M22. The word arctic arktos .
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