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Science@ESA: Episode 3: Exploring the infrared Universe 24 April 2009 In this third episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes …
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Stephen Hawking
Please allow Stephen Hawking to explain time, history, and God
Quartz - By Ephrat Livni
As a kid, the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was not a great student, by his own admission. What he was always good at, however, was asking big questions, queries so daunting and seemingly
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Galaxies
Will the cosmic microwave background disappear?
sciencefocus.com
Advertisement Yes. This relic radiation left over from the Big Bang is being increasingly redshifted as the Universe expands. So its energy is being …
Dark Energy
Are the laws of the universe fine-tuned for life?
astronomy.com
Humans have often looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s anyone else out there. But stare into that darkness long enough, and many wonder …
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Hubble Space Telescope
NASA snaps cosmic colour portrait
sbs.com.au
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the cosmos at its most colourful. A new NASA panorama looking deep and far into the universe for the first …
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Space
Hubble Has Found a Friendly Face Out There in The Universe
Science Alert - CARLY CASSELLA
Staring at the night sky can be a mind-boggling, existential experience, so every once in a while, it's nice to see a friendly face staring back at …
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Space
Astronomers Have Detected One of The Oldest Stars in The Entire Universe
Science Alert - MICHELLE STARR
Whenever we hear of stars discovered that formed just after the Big Bang, they're very far away, in the far reaches of the visible Universe. But now …
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Sheep
Does light escape the Universe when it is expanding or contracting?
sciencefocus.com
Advertisement The universe contains everything by definition. Light can’t escape the universe, because in travelling outward it merely expands the …
Radio Astronomy
Synchronized telescope dance puts limits on mysterious flashes in the sky
sciencedaily.com - International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Two outback radio telescopes synchronized to observe the same point of sky have discovered more about one of the Universe's most mysterious events. …
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Science
The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing
newscientist.com - Leah Crane
The Higgs boson may be key to understanding the first moments of the universe. If the early universe was too disordered, everything would have …
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Geek
How the Universe Ends
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
DeathThis week Gizmodo explores death and deadly things, in all their forms—the physical, the digital, and the fantastical. Somewhere between a second …
Atoms
Fast molecular outflow from a dusty star-forming galaxy in the early Universe
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British Philosophy
What is the Universe made of?
sciencefocus.com
Advertisement This is one of the biggest mysteries facing 21st-century science. Recent studies of the heat left over from the Big Bang have revealed …
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TED Talks
What does the universe sound like? A musical tour
ted.com - Matt Russo
Is outer space really the silent and lifeless place it's often depicted to be? Perhaps not. Astrophysicist and musician Matt Russo takes us on a …
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Galaxies
This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
When you gaze up at the night sky, through the veil of stars and the plane of the Milky Way close by, you can’t help but feel small before the grand abyss of the Universe that lies beyond. Even though
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Science
The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe
scientificamerican.com - Dan Coe
We stand on the verge of writing a nearly complete cosmic history. Astronomers have now observed galaxies going back 97 percent of the way to the big …
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Solar System
These Are The Most Distant Objects We've Ever Discovered In The Universe
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
The great cosmic abyss contains more that humanity can ever hope to see, including a slew of record-breaking objects. In our Solar System, Eris is the most distant known dwarf planet: over 90 AU away.
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Canadian Space Agency
XRISM: Canadian scientists to get glimpse of the hot universe
asc-csa.gc.ca
Launch: 2021 Mission duration: 5 years Mission status: In development Many people think of space as a cold and empty place, but some structures in the …
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Galaxies
What Was It Like When The Universe Made The Very First Galaxies?
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
When you look out beyond the Milky Way today, as far as we’ve ever been able to see, there are galaxies absolutely everywhere. Even if you take a dark patch of sky without stars, galaxies, or any known
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Radio Astronomy
New telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious 'fast radio bursts'
sciencedaily.com - International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Astronomers have nearly doubled the known number of 'fast radio bursts'-- powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team's discoveries …
Radio Astronomy
CU researcher leads lunar observation project
denverpost.com - By | brennanc@dailycamera.com | Boulder Daily Camera
University of Colorado researchers are planning to put a satellite in orbit around the moon to observe what they call the universe’s “dark ages” — an …
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Galaxies
Cosmic Dust Could Reveal New Types of Galaxies
realclearscience.com - Gareth Willmer
Measuring the vast quantities of cosmic dust in interstellar space may be a key to unlocking various mysteries of the cosmos, including how the …
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Andromeda Galaxy
What is the Universe expanding into?
sciencefocus.com
Advertisement Presently we do not know (and may never know) whether the Universe is infinite or not. If the Universe is infinite, then it can simply …
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University of California
Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
NBC News
Space Some think the “fast radio bursts” could be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization. For the past decade, scientists have been puzzling over powerful, millisecond-long flashes of energy from
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Galaxies
Warped and distorted
spacetelescope.org - information@eso.org
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image contains a veritable mix of different galaxies, some of which belong to the same larger structure: At the …
Galaxies
10 mysteries of the universe: Is Earth in a special place?
newscientist.com - Colin Stuart
Mystery: Are we in a special place? OUR entire cosmology is built on the idea of our own unremarkableness: that we’re nothing special and neither is …
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Microwaves
10 mysteries of the universe: How did it all begin?
newscientist.com - Joshua Howgego
Mystery: How did it all begin? WHEN the curtain came up on the universe, the lights stayed down for a moment. For about the first 380,000 years, a …
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Supernovae
10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end?
newscientist.com - Gilead Amit
Mystery: How will it all end? HALFWAY across the universe, a star lies dead. You write it off as routine, the sort of thing that happens a million …
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Human Interest
The Universe's Baby Picture Could Help Us Predict Its Future
curiosity.com - Elizabeth Howell
Look up at the sky and you see stars and galaxies and planets. But way in the background lurks an interesting form of radiation known as the Cosmic …
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Galaxies
First images of mist dispersing around young galaxy
phys.org - Leiden University
Galaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. …