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119 1885 1895 1903 1906 called the cinématographe, which projected moving images onto a screen. (^16) Aeroplane Wilbur and Orvil ...

▲ ANIMAL ROBOTS Robots that imitate the way different types of animals move and behave are vital steps in the development of ran ...

HELP AT HOME ▶ Although no one yet has an android servant doing all the domestic chores, some robots are at work in homes, perfo ...

The world today is constantly on the move. It is impossible to imagine life without the planes, trains, ships, and cars that tra ...

BY RAIL ▼ Trains carry large cargoes of people or goods and, as a result, are much more fuel-efficient and produce less pollutio ...

Scientists study the Universe in order to find out how and why things happen. There are many different branches of science, such ...

125 The voltaic pile was constructed from a pile of metal and brine-soaked cardboard disks DNA fingerprinting reveals a broken p ...

THE FIRST GALAXIES This view is part of an image recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows about 10,000 galaxies. It is ...

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128 The Universe is everything that exists, from the smallest particle on Earth to the vast galaxies of deep space. Every part o ...

129 FORMATION OF THE MOONEarth formed as ever-larger lumps of unused material collided and joined together. Young Earth was hit ...

130 1 2 3 4 5 6 130_131_Galaxies.indd 130 03/01/19 12:10 PM ...

Galaxies A galaxy is a vast group of stars held together by gravity – it is thought that there could be some 2 trillion in our U ...

Stars are huge spinning balls of hot, luminous gas. Each one is unique because stars differ in colour, temperature, size, bright ...

133 SUDDEN DEATH ▶ Ageing stars with eight or more times the mass of the Sun swell into enormous, unstable supergiant stars, whi ...

134 GEMINI TAURUS CANIS MINOR ORION LEPUS CANIS MAJOR COLUMBA ERIDANUS MONOCEROS Betelgeuse Sirius Aldebaran (^26) 5 8 1 3 4 7 3 ...

Stargazers have always looked for patterns in the night sky, using imaginary lines to link stars and form the shape of a creatur ...

The Sun is the closest star to Earth and the centre of our Solar System. This vast ball consists of hot luminous gas kept togeth ...

137 (^4) PROMINENCE Giant clouds and sheets of relatively cool gas that loop and arch from the surface are called prominences. T ...

Hurtling around the Sun are eight planets. Those closest to the Sun – Mercury, Venus, our home planet Earth, and Mars – are made ...