Video: Space telescope 'a little like a time machine'
Assistant professor Michael Maseda was one of many who contributed to development of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Phase transitions in the early universe and their signals
Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of a substance is changed, ...
Plasma Physics
Apr 14, 2022
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A dusty, compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn
An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark has identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy ...
Astronomy
Apr 13, 2022
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A universe without mathematics is beyond the scope of our imagination
Almost 400 years ago, in "The Assayer," Galileo wrote: "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics." He was much more than an astronomer, and this can ...
Mathematics
Apr 11, 2022
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Scientists have spotted the farthest galaxy ever
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy.
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Apr 7, 2022
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Early universe bristled with starburst galaxies
In the first few billion years after the Big Bang, the universe contained far more so-called starburst galaxies than models predict. As many as 60 to 90% of the stars in the early universe appear to have been produced by ...
Astronomy
Apr 4, 2022
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Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers discover farthest star yet
Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
Astronomy
Apr 2, 2022
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Spiderweb galaxy field: Feasting black holes caught in galactic spiderweb
Often, a spiderweb conjures the idea of captured prey soon to be consumed by a waiting predator. In the case of the "Spiderweb" protocluster, however, objects that lie within a giant cosmic web are feasting and growing, according ...
Astronomy
Mar 31, 2022
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Ancient helium leaking from core offers clues of Earth's formation
Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a solar nebula, which has ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2022
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Video: Astronomers reveal remarkable simulations of the early universe epoch of reionization
It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters.
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2022
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