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How we know the Cosmos is 13.8 billion years old?

The Cosmos is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that really the beginning, and is that actually its age? KEY TAKEAWAYS ·         If we calculate from the start of the hot Big Bang,

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“Extremely Exciting” Gravitational Wave from the Far Side Of Universe Detected

The astounding discovery was made by The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration bymonitoring spacetime distortions. In a fresh intergalactic discovery, an "extremely exciting" gravitational-wave signal from the far side of the universehas been detected by scientists. The researchers stumbled upon ripples running

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A Teasing ‘Hint’ That Astrophysicists Got Dark Energy All Wrong

Researchers may have discovered a major error in their understanding of that enigmatic cosmic force. That could be great news for the fate of the universe. On Thursday, astronomers who are carrying out what they label as the biggest and

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How do animals react to eclipses? Aid NASA find out.

A colossal citizen science project isall set to study how the animal kingdom responds to April 8’s total solar eclipse. Tens of millions of sky-watchers are expected to witness the total solar eclipse above North America on 8th April. Shrieks,

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What are the real colors of images from the JWST?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has earned fame for capturing our universe with unparalleled precision and sensitivity. Its images are beautiful apart from being scientifically useful. From the pink, purple and orange of Cassiopeia A to the gold and

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JWST Watches the Most Distant Galactic Merger Ever observed

Astronomers are well aware that galaxies form through mergers. Galactic mergershave been occurring since the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Using the Webb telescope (JWST) astronomers discovered a colossal merger of young galaxies going on abouthalf a million years post

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Another way to measure the universe’s expansioncould be offered by ‘Singing’ red giant stars

The cosmic distance ladder might have another rung soon. In about 5 billion years, the sun will become bereft of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core. This will make inner core of the sun to collapse under

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Scientists make public largest map of the universe’s active supermassive black holes (SMBHs) ever created

A gigantic new 3D map of space includes more than 1 million SMBH powered quasars, which are amongst the brightest objects in the universe. Scientists have uncovered a moving 3D map of SMBHs that covers the largest volume of our

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Decoding the Dark: The Accelerating Universe and the Pursuit for Dark Energy

Dark energy’s role in driving the universe’s accelerated expansion presents a critical challenge in astrophysics, inspiring ongoing research and space missions dedicated to uncovering the nature of this enigmatic force. Around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe started with a

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JWST detects oldest ‘dead’ galaxy in the known universe — and its death could defy cosmology

Astronomers using the JWST have detected the oldest "dead" galaxy ever detected, at just 700 million years after the Big Bang. The stalled-out relic flouts explanation by our current understanding of the early cosmos.  Astronomers using JWST (the James Webb

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