cosmology
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What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe
Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in…
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The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
In classical physics, a vacuum is a total void—a true manifestation of nothingness. But quantum physics says that empty space…
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No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
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Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
Scientists just announced that they’ve detected what might be some of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, a…
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Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
“There are some configurations of the future that don’t correspond to anything in the past,” Cotler said. “There’s nothing in…
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The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s Almost Invisible
In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery of a…
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Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from Hubble
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view,…
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A miniature universe shows particles may emerge out of empty space
A first-of-its-kind experiment simulating the cosmos with ultracold potassium atoms suggests that in a curved, expanding universe pairs of particles…
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The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory had just detected…
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain…
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