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Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

Cosmic Ray Detector - AP

A $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is on the verge of explaining one of the more mysterious building blocks of the universe: The dark matter that helps hold the cosmos together....

 

Hubbles takes new Deep Field Image, 13.2 billion years into the past.

Galaxies

The eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) focuses on a small patch of the constellation Fornax, containing some 5,500 galaxies. The image was culled from 10 years of photos of the same region of space shown in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which was last updated in 2009, based on data gathered in 2003 and 2004.

 

Mega-star explosion most distant object ever seen

Mega-star explosion most distant object ever seen

It took 13 billion years to reach Earth, but astronomers have seen the light of an exploding mega-star that is the most distant object ever detected, two studies published Thursday reported.

 

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