astrophysics
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Three Stars Were Exiled From Their Galaxies To Explode In A Cosmic Void
It’s easy to imagine the universe as an endless sea of stars, but that’s a biased, Earthly perspective. If we could zoom very far out, we’d see bright cosmic clusters like our Milky Way, and between them, unimaginably vast stretches of empty intergalactic space.
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Astrophysicists Find That Cities Grow Just Like Galaxies
We’ve all looked out at the night sky and wondered at how much the stars look like strings of cities. But there’s more than a passing resemblance — according to a team of astrophysicists who compared the two, there’s a much deeper connection at work. We aren’t just made of stars, we act like them…
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Astronomers Discover First Direct Proof Of The Big Bang Expansion
Somebody’s going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that’s what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang. It’s more proof that the Big Bang really was the beginning of it all.