Astronomers this week announced that they’d attempted to measure all of the starlight in the universe.
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An ambitious use of the Hubble Space Telescope hopes to map some of the biggest, brightest, and furthest galaxies to…
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Scientists have spotted 13-billion-year-old oxygen in a distant galaxy—a signal of stars forming during the…
Eerie similarities unite vastly different scientific ideas in sometimes utterly surprising ways. One of these…
How do we find a tiny shred of self-understanding in this vast universe? More simply: how did we get here? A proper…
When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy.…
We know that the universe is expanding, but a strange discrepancy in just how fast that expansion is occurring…