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Asoka was born a Hindu, but he became a Buddhist. He then gave up war, sickened by the slaughter he had seen during his conquest of Orissa in the southeast. Asoka made new laws and had them inscribed on stone pillars set up all across his empire.

the brightest star of all is Sirius

Much of what we know about how the Greeks lived comes from pictures on vases.

Knowing the facts about the Milky Way, as we do today, doesn’t remove any of the wonder of it. The facts are just as amazing as any “made-up” idea!

The names of the constellations in use today have come down to us from the times of the Romans and from the even more ancient Greeks. What the Greeks knew about the stars came partly from the Babylonians.

The outside of the earth is a crust of rock about 10 to 30 miles thick. This crust is sometimes called “the lithosphere”. The high parts of this crust are the continents, and the low parts of it hold the waters of the oceans and the great inland sea and lakes. All the water on the surface, including the oceans, lakes, rivers, and all the smaller streams, is called “the hydrosphere.”

So if science is right, the sun keeps shining because it is constantly changing matter into energy, and just one percent of the sun’s mass would provide enough energy to keep it hot for 150 million years!

How this solar system came to be and how the planets came to have the size, location, and orbits they have, astronomers cannot fully explain.

So you see why it is impossible for us to have an idea of the size of the universe. Incidentally, it is believed by scientists that the universe is expanding. This means that every few billion years two galaxies will find themselves twice as far apart as they were before?