Image: When a large nearby object, such as a galaxy, blocks a distant object, such as another galaxy, the light can detour around the blockage. But instead of taking a single path, light can bend ...
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Do We Really Understand the Scale of the Universe?
From subatomic particles to galaxies billions of light-years away, the scale of the universe is beyond mind-blowing—yet most of us can barely grasp it. This video breaks down the cosmic vastness step ...
A new JCAP study tests an “emulator” to reconstruct the large-scale structure of the cosmos If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together ...
As evidenced by the diagrams that make up the Tree of Knowledge System, I think it is valuable that we teach individuals broad frames to think about the Universe and our place in it. That was why I ...
Scientists on Earth use seismometers to get a more detailed picture of what the inside of the Earth is made of. Those seismometers record vibrations from earthquakes. The vibrations change depending ...
The universe is vast, beyond what we can truly comprehend. But how big is it, really? In this video, we explore the incredible size of the universe, from its observable limits to the theories that ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...
Space is big. That’s why we call it space. But how big is “big”? That’s relative. When an astronomer says something is nearby, they might mean it’s a few million kilometers away (if they’re talking ...
Is the universe finite or infinite in extent? This question has been a preoccupation of philosophy for millenniums, and scientists continue to grapple with it. Wherever infinity appears, paradox looms ...
TACC's Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structures in the universe. Example Lyman-α forest spectra from ...
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