![]() ![]() The gravitational attraction of the original gaseous matter present in the Universe caused it to begin coalescing and forming stars and caused the stars to group together into galaxies, so gravity is responsible for many of the large-scale structures in the Universe. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon's gravity causes the tides of the oceans. Gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight' ), or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy-including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light -are attracted to (or gravitate toward) one another. Hammer and feather drop: astronaut David Scott (from mission Apollo 15) on the Moon enacting Galileo's legendary thought experiment
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