Cosmology
Big Bang Timeline
The Big Bang timeline is basically just a list of relative times at which the major events in the history…
Searching for Life in the Multiverse
[/caption] Other intelligent and technologically capable alien civilizations may exist in our Universe, but the problems with finding and communicating…
Megaparsec
[/caption] A megaparsec is a million parsecs (mega- is a prefix meaning million; think of megabyte, or megapixel), and as…
Quintessence
Quintessence is one idea – hypothesis – of what dark energy is (remember that dark energy is the shorthand expression…
Baryon
[/caption] Particles made up of three quarks are called baryons; the two best known baryons are the proton (made up…
Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era
[/caption] Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies…
New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model
New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the leftover light from the Big Bang - lend further support…
If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There?
[/caption] Theoretical physics has brought us the notion that our single universe is not necessarily the only game in town.…
What! No Parallel Universe? Cosmic Cold Spot Just Data Artifact
Rats! Another perplexing space mystery solved by science. New analysis of the famous "cold spot" in the cosmic microwave background…
Hubble’s Law
[/caption] "The distance to objects beyond the Local Group is closely related to how fast they seem to be receding…