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December’s special issue of Astronomy ... of the cosmos known as Laniakea, a massive collection of galaxy superclusters, or how the universe’s scaffold of dark matter supports the cosmic ...
Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy ... overviews of cosmic mysteries, and more! This week we’re talking about the distance scale of the cosmos. It’s absolutely ...
"The formation of cosmic ... in astronomy," team member and Texas A&M University astronomer, Lifan Wang, said in a statement. "It is related to literally all phenomena of the cosmos.
Radio astronomy studies cosmic radiation with the longest wavelengths (from less than 0.4 inches to several miles, or 1 centimeter to several kilometers) and was the first kind of astronomy ...
As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence ... in existing in this vast and wonderful cosmos of ours,” he concludes, “is being ...
Astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery, revealing the long-hidden object that collided with the Perseus cluster in a vast-scale hit-and-run billions of years ago. Composed of thousands of ...
Very Large Array in New Mexico. The VLA is an important tool for studying cosmic radio waves. For most of the history of astronomy, scientists primarily studied signals transmitted by one ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has observed fast-moving cosmic storms of star-forming gases that will help scientists unravel some of the mysteries of how galaxies and stars form and ...
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