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News Archive / Tagged: cosmology

  • Hubble Space Telescope discoveries highlighted by astronomer

    Laurel KornfeldMarch 14th, 2021

    During its 31 years of activity, the Hubble Space Telescope has been "one of the most successful scientific experiments in history," used to research numerous fields of astronomy ranging from cosmology and the expansion of the universe to the characterization of exoplanets, said astronomer Tom Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in a March 2 online presentation.

  • Study shows ancient galaxies brighter than previously thought

    Laurel KornfeldMay 11th, 2019

    The universe's earliest galaxies, which formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang, may have been significantly brighter than previously thought.