Word: cosmic
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Ahab's chance comes in the unlikely meeting of medieval East and West, the cosmic collision of a band of luckless crusaders from oh-so-civilized Britain with the exotic chaos of Solong...
...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...
...team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered cosmic bubbles in space which may alter scientists' views of how the universe was formed...
...conditions that existed at the birth of the sun and the nine planets some 4.5 billion years ago. That in turn could reveal how common an occurrence the formation of planets around other stars may be, hence how likely it is that extraterrestrial life exists. "Comets are like a cosmic refrigerator," says Paul Feldman, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "They've internally preserved the whole history of the solar system...
...comets are simply hurtling hunks of ice, where do they come from, and how do they get here? The same year that Whipple spun his theory of cosmic snowballs, Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort conceived of a kind of enormous warehouse for comets, which would come to be known as the Oort Cloud. Basing his calculations on the shape of cometary orbits and the number of new comets observed each year, Oort postulated that the cloud surrounds the solar system in a vast region 30,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the sun (one AU is about 93 million miles...