May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...to the strange Universe we inhabit. Ever since the Big Bang exploded the Universe into existence some 13.8 billion years ago...’ needed to be folded for launch as no rocket fairing was big enough to house the full mirror. Cosmic dust is the building ...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... evolved and therefore expanded since it came into being with a big bang, scientists use a model known as lambda CDM (or ΛCDM)....model,” explained Lusso. At the moment, the discrepancy is big enough to infer that extra physics are needed to reconcile...
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
... short. Studies of this relic radiation leftover from the Big Bang showed that it looks nearly identical in every direction.... about the large-scale structure of the Universe is a big deal, but Shamir seems confident that no error or contamination...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... about their progenitor and they can also be produced by other violent events in the cosmos such as the big bang. Figure 2: The main equation of Einstein’s General Relativity While the phenomena that produce these waves are...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... theory of quantum fluctuations of the void causing the singularity from which the Universe emerged during the Big Bang. Chaos is not then about creation itself but the place from which creation comes. A formless reservoir...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... increase with the distance between them and this is a manifestation of the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. Observations of the Hydroxide molecules in a cloud surrounding a distant quasar show that the fine structure constant has...
