In 1929 Edwin Hubble surprised many people – including Albert Einstein – when he showed that the universe is expanding. Another bombshell came in 1998 when two teams of astronomers
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Why Didn’t Voyager Explore the Kuiper Belt?
New Horizons There’s a very good reason – it wasn’t discovered until 1992. At that stage, Voyager 1 was almost all the way across the the Kuiper Belt and Voyager
Continue readingSignal detected from the first stars in the universe, with a hint that dark matter was involved
Great article from Professor Karl Glazebrook of Swinburne Uni. Signal detected from the first stars in the universe, with a hint that dark matter was involved Signals from the first stars
Continue readingAstronomers detect light from the Universe’s first stars
Via a radio telescope in Western Australia! Astronomers detect light from the Universe’s first stars Surprises in signal from cosmic dawn also hint at presence of dark matter. Astronomers
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