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What type of inflation is responsible for the large distances between galaxies?

Cosmic Inflation

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How many million years would a trip to the Maffei group take, if a spaceship from Earth was travelling at the speed of light?

11 million years!

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What is a light year?

a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year

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How many stars are born in our galaxy each year?

Approx. 3

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What is the name of the galaxy that Earth is found in?

The Milky Way

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Why does Kurzgesagt think that we are lucky to be born now?

We are able to see our most distance past by looking into the night's sky

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What percentage of galaxies in the observable universe have passed our reachable boundary?

94%

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What concept did we come up with to explain the rate of expansion of the universe?

Dark Energy

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What is the name of the giant elliptical galaxy that will form in a few billion years?

Milkdromeda

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What is the name of the group that the Milky Way and Andromeda are a part of? (hint: our galactic neghbourhood)

The Local Group

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Give the name of the theory/event that created the universe?

The Big Bang

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Is the expansion of the universe accelerating or decelerating?

The expansion of the universe is accelerating

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