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a 13.8-billion-year-old riddle that built eyes just to glance back at itself
means The universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole — everything that exists, taken as a single vast system.
from From the Greek 'kosmos,' which meant 'order' and 'arrangement' — and, tellingly, also 'ornament' (the word survives in 'cosmetic'). The ancient Greeks saw the heavens not as chaos but as a thing beautifully ordered, so they called the whole arrangement by their word for harmonious good order. Pythagoras is traditionally credited with first applying it to the universe, though the attribution is more legend than documented fact.
- mostly dark
- 95 percent is invisible dark matter and energy
- you, scaled
- observable universe holds 2 trillion galaxies
- made of stars
- your atoms forged inside long-dead suns
- still growing
- space itself expands, stretching ancient light redder
- cold ceiling
- empty space sits at minus 270 Celsius
cosmos tv series — carl sagan's 1980 pbs series watched by over 500 million people worldwide
cosmos a spacetime odyssey — neil degrasse tyson's 2014 reboot on fox, 13 episodes exploring the universe
cosmos nightclub istanbul — historic nightclub in beyoğlu district, operating since the 1980s as a cultural venue