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NASA Shares Gorgeous Gallery of Cosmic Imagery Ahead of Cosmos Premier
Tonight, at 9pm EST, more than 70 nations will broadcast the first episode in the 13-part remake of the show Cosmos.
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Cosmic inflation: 'Spectacular' discovery hailed
Scientists say they have extraordinary new evidence to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the Universe. Researchers believe they have found the signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred just fractions of a second after everything came into being.
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Unearthing a 13th-century metaverse
ONE thing that irks this Babbage is the view that if schools simply focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—at the expense of frivolous “non-scientific” subjects—then a model 21st-century workforce would magically materialise. Those entertaining such notions should consider the following a brief morality tale.
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A “wimpy” dwarf fossil galaxy reveals new facts about early universe
Faintest galaxy ever detected illuminates unusual aspects of the universe’s early evolution. Located some 75,000 light years from us, a galaxy known as Segue 1 has some unusual properties: It is the faintest galaxy ever detected. It is very small, containing only about 1,000 stars. And it has a rare chemical composition, with vanishingly small amounts of metallic elements present.
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Universe evolution recreated in lab
An international team of researchers has created the most complete visual simulation of how the Universe evolved.
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When Will We Find Dark Matter?
One of the most fundamental but elusive constituents of the cosmos could soon be cornered
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Backlash to Big Bang Discovery Gathers Steam
Physicists cast doubt on a landmark experiment’s claim to have observed gravity waves from the big bang
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'Cosmos' presenter: I worry aliens have already decided we're stupid
Neil DeGrasse Tyson tells MSNBC that it's possible aliens have visited and already concluded that there is no intelligent life on Earth.
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It’s okay. Nothing really matters. We don’t actually exist, anyway. Or so the Higgs Boson particle suggests
IT took $10 billion, the world’s largest particle accelerator and decades of research, but now scientists are convinced: The universe doesn’t exist.
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What does alien life look like? And what are the odds that it’s out there?
“Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitation of living creatures.” -William Herschel
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The most basic unknowable property of matter
When you think about the Universe on a global scale, you might think of the very large (like stars, galaxies, or clusters of galaxies), the very small (like cells, molecules, or individual atoms), or anywhere in between. The Universe, as you well know, encompasses it all.
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Small, but plentiful: How the faintest galaxies illuminated the early universe
Astronomers investigating behaviour of the universe shortly after the Big Bang have made a surprising discovery: the properties of the early universe are determined by the smallest galaxies. The team report their findings in a paper published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Scientist find that 80 percent of all light in the Universe is missing
According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80 percent of all its light. Astronomers are completely baffled: "We still don't know for sure what it is, but at least one thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isn't true."
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If you fold a paper in half 103 times it'll get as thick as the Universe
The myth: You can't fold a paper in half more than eight times.* The reality: Given a paper large enough—and enough energy—you can fold it as many times as you want. The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years. Seriously.
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Quantum bounce could make black holes explode
Black holes might end their lives by transforming into their exact opposite — 'white holes' that explosively pour all the material they ever swallowed into space, say two physicists. The suggestion, based on a speculative quantum theory of gravity, could solve a long-standing conundrum about whether black holes destroy information.
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Milky Way Punier Than We Thought
Looks like our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has gone on the ultimate weight-loss program, according to astronomers. According to a new supercomputer simulation, it turns out that the entire mass of our Milky Way galaxy is about half that of the great Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbouring spiral galaxy some 2.6 million light-years away from us. Astronomers had long thought the galaxies were twins.
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The Stellar Pearls - The Hubble Space telescope
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View from ISS
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1E 0657-56, the "bullet cluster."
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Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe
In a preface to new book, the famed physicist fears the Higgs Boson becoming unstable and causing a "catastrophic vacuum decay." But how likely is that really?
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