physics
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How Heavy Is The Milky Way?
By combining data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has come up with the most accurate estimate yet of our galaxy’s mass.
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Physicists Propose Hunting For Signs Of Dark Matter In Ancient Minerals
Physicists typically build large, complex experiments to hunt for dark matter particles coming from outer space, but what if clues to its existence have been hiding inside the Earth all along? One group of physicists proposes hunting for signs of it in ancient minerals, such as olivine or gypsum, that formed in the Earth’s mantle…
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What’s At The Edge Of The Universe?
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but to the very edge of the universe, as far as it is possible to get from the fever dream of bad weather, busted trains and potentially cancerous thigh lesions that…
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New Star Map Reveals The Milky Way Is Warped
A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape.