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  2. List of gravity hills - Wikipedia

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    Santa Cruz: 465 Mystery Spot Road off Branciforte Drive near State Route 17 (SR 17) within the redwood forest. A tourist attraction called "Mystery Spot" is operated at the site. [251] [252] San Francisco: In Golden Gate Park, on JFK drive, just West of Transverse Drive, where the water from Rainbow Falls flows towards Lloyd Lake.

  3. List of unsolved problems in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of notable unsolved problems in astronomy.Problems may be theoretical or experimental. Theoretical problems result from inability of current theories to explain observed phenomena or experimental results.

  4. Mysterium Cosmographicum - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Kepler's first major astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographic Mystery), was the second published defence of the Copernican system.Kepler claimed to have had an epiphany on July 19, 1595, while teaching in Graz, demonstrating the periodic conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the zodiac: he realized that regular polygons bound one inscribed and one circumscribed ...

  5. Mystery Spot - Wikipedia

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    The Mystery Spot was the first "gravity-defying" tourist attraction in California and was the most prominent illusion-based tourist attraction in California in the mid-20th century. [20] It has been featured on BuzzFeed , and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and other newspapers, comic strips, and travel blogs for decades.

  6. Boötes Void - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Boötes Void. The Boötes Void (/ b oʊ ˈ oʊ t iː z / boh-OH-teez) (colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing) [1] is an approximately spherical region of space found in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes, containing only 60 galaxies instead of the 2,000 that should be expected from an area this large, hence its name.

  7. Big Ring - Wikipedia

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    The Big Ring is composed of numerous galaxies and galaxy clusters that form a continuous, almost perfect ring-like pattern in space. With its diameter of 1.3 billion light years and a circumference of 4 billion light years, it is one of the largest known structures within the observable universe.

  8. Scientists Discover 27 New Species in Densely Populated Area ...

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    An expedition with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program did a species survey of Peru's Alto Mayo Landscape in 2024. The expedition recorded over 2,000 species during its 38-day survey

  9. Void (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The structure of the Universe can be broken down into components that can help describe the characteristics of individual regions of the cosmos. These are the main structural components of the cosmic web: Voids – vast, largely spherical [6] regions with very low cosmic mean densities, up to 100 megaparsecs (Mpc) in diameter. [7]