#gravitationally

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2023-12-27

What was it like when the first began to form?
Even after the first form, those overdense regions attract and also merge. Here's how they grow into galaxies.

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

Matt WillemsenNonog@fedibird.com
2023-07-17

Earth Is a Potato
Gravitationally speaking
Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid, a little bit squashed at the poles and fat around the equator, not to mention speckled with mountain ranges. And then you have the geoid people—the ones who think of Earth less as an imperfect sphere and more as a lumpy potato.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv #earth #potato #gravitationally #sphere #ellipsoid #geoid #LumpyPotatoid

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