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  1. What is gravity? - NASA

    Newton's "law" of gravity is a mathematical description of the way bodies are observed to attract one another, based on many scientific experiments and observations. The gravitational …

  2. Gravity/Gravitational Field - NASA Earthdata

    Dec 26, 2025 · Gravity/Gravitational Field Data from NASA satellite observations provide information about Earth's mean gravity field and inform monthly maps of the time-variable …

  3. Matter in Motion: Earth's Changing Gravity | NASA Earthdata

    Dec 28, 2020 · A new satellite mission sheds light on Earth's gravity field and provides clues about changing sea levels.

  4. StarChild: Stars - NASA

    Gravity causes the last of the star's matter to collapse inward and compact. This is the white dwarf stage which is extremely dense. White dwarfs shine with a white hot light but once all of their …

  5. StarChild: Glossary - NASA

    GRAVITATIONAL PULL See Gravity GRAVITY The force of attraction between two objects which is influenced by the mass of the two objects and the distance between the two objects. …

  6. What makes stars shine - NASA

    It is this energy which causes the star to shine and stops it from collapsing due to the pull of gravity. Does the conversion of this tiny bit of mass into energy create enough energy to …

  7. Sir Isaac Newton - NASA

    As the years progressed, Newton completed his work on universal , diffraction of light, centrifugal force, centripetal force, inverse-square law, bodies in motion and the variations in tides due to …

  8. StarChild: Stars - NASA

    As more and more of the gas (which is mostly hydrogen) is pulled together by gravity into a cloud, the cloud starts to spin. The gas atoms start to bump into each other faster and faster. This …

  9. StarChild: Galaxies - NASA

    A galaxy contains stars, gas, and dust which are held together as a group by gravity. There may be millions, or even billions, of stars in one galaxy. There are billions of galaxies in the …

  10. How do we know that dark matter exists? - NASA

    The cluster does not behave as scientists would expect it to if only the visible matter is generating the gravity present in the cluster. 'Dark matter' theory suggests that a huge amount of dark …