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Solar System Quiz

The Earth in the Universe: Information

Visible Light and the Solar System

Module by Derek Cumberbatch, updated more than 1 year ago

Description

Before the technology of the last 100 years, everything we have ever learned about the universe was based upon observation. At first, it was what we could see with the naked eye. Then telescopes were invented. We could see much farther.