cosmology
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A Typical Neutron Star Is Only 22 Kilometres Wide, According To New Ultra-Precise Measurement
A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometres wide, according to new research. It’s the most accurate measurement yet of these highly compact, super-dense objects.
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This Dust-Filled Galaxy Formed Less Than A Billion Years After The Big Bang
Astronomers have spotted an unusually distant star-forming galaxy, the light of which took a whopping 13 billion years to reach Earth. Perhaps most incredibly, however, the galaxy was observed directly, without the help of a celestial phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
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A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties Of Dark Energy Particle
An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the universe’s mass. But the search isn’t over.
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Astronomers Peer Back 13 Billion Years And See Two Galaxies Colliding
Scientists have spotted one of the most distant (and therefore the youngest) example of merging galaxies yet observed, according to new results.