Many facts are well-known to professionals, but are unappreciated or even rejected outright by the public. “How stars work” takes the…
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On cosmic scales, only dark matter (or something equivalent) gives us the Universe we observe. Now, the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect agrees. Continue…
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Every time a new star forms, there’s an opportunity to form planets alongside and around it. How does it happen, and…
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From 2004 through 2017, Saturn was imaged many times and from many angles up close by Cassini. This new viral image…
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By looking at a giant, remarkable, edge-on protoplanetary system, astronomers have found a proto-protoplanet for the first time. Continue reading on…
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Known as the “past hypothesis” problem, the Universe’s initially low entropy has long puzzled scientists. Now, cosmic inflation solves it. Continue…
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As humanity journeys to the Moon for the first time since 1972, can we rediscover our shared responsibilities: to the world…
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As light travels across the Universe, it’s subject to cosmic expansion, changing fields, and relative motion. How about gravitational… Continue reading…
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In a 13.8 billion year old Universe, a few seconds hardly seems like it matters. But these minuscule changes sure do…
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Early on, the Universe needed near-perfect flatness, or atoms, stars, and galaxies couldn’t form. What happens once dark energy takes over?…