Going Boldly.(astrophysics, study of the universe)

From: Canada and the World Backgrounder | Date: October 1, 2000 | Copyright information

What is known about the Universe is dwarfed by what is not known, so the science of the cosmos is a wide open field for phisicists who enjoy a challenge

Ho hum; scientists announced the discovery of nine new planets in the Universe in August 2000 and it didn't even make the front pages. Why the lack of interest? Perhaps it's because everything to do with space is on so vast a scale that we can't grasp it. Nothing about the Universe is on a human scale.

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