P1 The Earth in the Universe

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What is a light year?
the distance that light travels
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What is parallax?
when something appears to move when you look at it from a distance
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What is redshift?
when a galaxy is moving away, the wavelength of light from it changes
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Summarise the big bang
all matter in the universe was compressed into very small space; it exploded and started expanding , and the expansion is still going on now
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the further away the galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us
the whole universe is expanding - the big bang
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What is parallax?

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when something appears to move when you look at it from a distance

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What is redshift?

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Summarise the big bang

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the further away the galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us

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