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Hubble sees most distant, oldest galaxies from the beginning of the Universe
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a long look at a specific part of the sky for around 100 hours. Examining that area of the sky in using infrared allowed the astronomers…
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Astronomers find a star factory in impending galactic collision
New images of an 11 billion year-old galactic collision may change how we think about the formation of new stars.
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Astronomers create 3D fly-through of Hubble Ultra Deep Field image
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is one of the most incredible images ever captured by the space telescope. It contains roughly 10,000 galaxies spotted in a small, seemingly empty patch of sky. […]
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South Pole Telescope looks back to universe’s earliest days
The South Pole telescope is designed to view the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation to take a snapshot of how the universe looked just after the Big Bang.
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Was the universe fathered by sterile neutrinos?
A trio of recent papers have argued that a new particle called the sterile neutrino could explain why the universe formed as it did.
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Scientists may have detected the gravitational echoes of the big bang
Roughly 14 billion years ago, something happened and the universe was born. The exact nature of that something, which we’ve taken to calling the big bang, is not entirely clear. However, some...
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We probably live in a multiverse
The physics community is still abuzz after the recent announcement of the first concrete evidence for the so-called inflation theory of the Big Bang. However, the patterns detected in the cosmic...
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Disney’s PixelBots dance the history of the universe
Disney's new PixelBots can move with grace, and in their newest video dance out an elaborate retelling of the origin of life and universe itself.
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Fusion researchers accidentally invent machine for converting light into matter
We may finally be able to test a decades-old idea about how to turn energy into matter - a new sort of ultra-modern alchemy that could tell us about the birth of the universe.
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NASA confirms existence of oldest, most distant galaxy cluster ever found
A new most distant galaxy cluster has been confirmed to lie a whopping 10 billion light years from Earth - but it could still tell scientists a lot.
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Very Large Telescope findings could force physicists to rethink the Big Bang
New scans of the Messier 54 star cluster have confirmed a long-standing fear in astronomy: universal lithium levels are way off of our models for the creation of the universe.
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New study claims black holes are mathematically impossible
New mathematical work claims to prove that black holes simply cannot exist -- so what exactly is going on in the universe?
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6 telescopes strapped to a balloon in Antarctica to study Big Bang remnants
To the best of our knowledge, the universe as we know it came into being 13.8 billion years ago in the form of a rapid expansion event commonly referred to as the big […]
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The universe is dying
It’s like the old adage goes: all good things must come to an end. However, the notion of our entire world–our existence having an expiration date beyond our control is a bit more […]
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Caltech researchers detect the most distant galaxy yet
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, give or take a few eons. We know that it didn’t take long for matter to start clumping together to form stars and galaxies, but a […]
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