Searching for the hidden signal from the universe's beginning
Astronomers are on the search for a mysterious signal that could map the early universe.
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Page 6 - News tagged with first stars
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each other from a very large distance. Although these objects ...
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Supercomputers dig into first star fossils
No one has yet found the first stars.
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Spacecraft DAPPER will study 'Dark Ages' of the universe in radio waves
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has joined a new NASA space mission to the far side of the Moon to investigate when the first stars began to form in the early universe.
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According to globular clusters, the universe is 13.35 billion years old
It is a widely accepted theory today that when the first stars formed in our universe approximately 13 billion years ago, they quickly came together to form globular clusters. These clusters then coalesced to others to form ...
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Hubble catches cosmic snowflakes
Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years from the Milky Way's galactic center. Like snowflakes, the exact number of stars in such a cluster ...
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Astronomers spot distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover
An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found the farthest galaxy group identified to date. Called EGS77, the trio of galaxies dates to a time when the universe was only 680 million years old, or less ...
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Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn
Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope, scientists ...
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Hubble captures a dozen Sunburst Arc doppelgangers
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a galaxy in the distant regions of the Universe which appears duplicated at least 12 times on the night sky. This unique sight, created by strong gravitational ...
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Nov 7, 2019
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Ancient gas cloud shows that the first stars must have formed very quickly
Astronomers led by Eduardo Bañados of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered a gas cloud that contains information about an early phase of galaxy and star formation, merely 850 million years after the Big ...
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