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The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

It’s kind of a pity that the human eye is limited in sight. That especially goes for those of us who wear glasses. I remember the first time I tried to use my telescope with my ocular enhancements ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of researchers is now pumping the brakes on that idea. A new theory promises to ...

The universe is expected to look roughly the same in every direction, but a stubborn and consistent streak pattern identified by astronomers isn’t playing by those rules. A new look at radio maps of ...

George Smoot, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that still bathes the sky in microwave light. For decades, scientists have combed this signal for tiny twists called ...

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Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT), which ...