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Is There a Mirror Universe?
Could there be a mirror universe, where everything is backwards - and everybody has goatees? How badly do you need…
Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?
Two possiblities exist: either the Universe is finite and has a size, or it's infinite and goes on forever. Both…
How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?
Cosmologists are intellectual time travelers. Looking back over billions of years, these scientists are able to trace the evolution of…
Where Did the Big Bang Happen?
Imagine the Big Bang, and you're imagining an explosion. There must be come place we could travel in the Universe…
Is Everything Actually Shrinking?
Whoa, here's something to think about. Maybe the Universe isn't expanding at all. Maybe everything is actually just shrinking, so…
Why Is Andromeda Coming Towards Us?
I don’t want to freak you out, but you should be aware that there’s a gigantic galaxy with twice our…
Like a BOSS: How Astronomers are Getting Precise Measurements of the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Astrophysicists studying the expansion of the Universe with the largest galaxy catalogs ever assembled are ushering in an exciting era…
What Is This Empty Hole In Space?
What may appear at first glance to be an eerie, empty void in an otherwise star-filled scene is really a…
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Hearing the Early Universe’s Scream: Sloan Survey Announces New Findings
Imagine a single mission that would allow you to explore the Milky Way and beyond, investigating cosmic chemistry, hunting planets, mapping galactic…
NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…