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The galaxy cluster Abel 2744 or the Pandora cluster. The researchers looked at the galaxies behind it. Photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope

The first light in the universe

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James Webb Space Telescope observations of galaxies in the young universe revealed that the first light in space came from bright young stars
NGC 5468 — the host galaxy of Cepheid. Joint photograph of the Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, NASA/ESA

The Webb and Hubble telescopes confirm the rate of expansion of the universe, the puzzle remains

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Webb's measurements provide new light on a decade-long mystery known as the Hubble voltage - the differences in the age of the universe between the Hubble observations and past observations that remain unexplained * Prof. Adam Ries, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of dark energy heads the project
In this map, built on the basis of the observations of the Planck spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency, you can see the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the earliest observable light of the universe, and it gives us the best picture ever of the universe in its early childhood. The blue areas in the sky represent points where the temperature of the background radiation, and in any case also of the early universe, is lower, and the red areas reflect warmer places. Proponents of the inflationary theory, which holds that the universe expanded rapidly in its early moments, argue that the pattern of hot and cold spots is consistent with this idea. However, the theory can actually produce any pattern, and in most of its versions it produces larger temperature differences than this map shows. Moreover, if inflation did occur, the background radiation should include evidence for cosmic gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime caused by the primordial stretch, but it does not. Instead, the Planck data reveal that the true story of our universe's history is still far from over. Source: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.

Nobel laureate Prof. Peebles revealed the secrets behind cosmic radiation

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A diagram of the evolution and expansion of the universe, with cosmic inflation visible at its very beginning. Is the theory of cosmic inflation, which tries to explain the properties of our universe, wrong? Source: r NASA/WMAP Science Team.

Cosmic controversy

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A diagram of the evolution and expansion of the universe, with cosmic inflation visible at its very beginning. Is the theory of cosmic inflation, which tries to explain the properties of our universe, wrong? Source: r NASA/WMAP Science Team.

The theory of cosmic inflation is in trouble

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This image shows an array of 512 conductive detectors on the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole. The technology was fundamental to the discovery of the effect of gravitational waves from the early era of the universe known as the "Inflationary Period". Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

How does the telescope at the South Pole that discovered the gravitational waves created by the Big Bang work?

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The Planck Space Telescope and the map it created of the cosmic background radiation. Figure: European Space Agency

The Planck Space Telescope has completed its mission and cleared its orbit

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The sky in the microwave field, as photographed by the European Space Agency's Planck Space Telescope. These speckled structures of the cosmic background radiation, the oldest light in the universe, are visible at high latitudes on the map. The strip in the center is the plane of our galaxy - the Milky Way. Photo: European Space Agency.

Is a large concentration of dark energy at the beginning of the universe responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe that began 7 billion years ago and is felt today?

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This map shows the ancient light in our universe, as it was discovered with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. Photo: European Space Agency and the Planck Partnership. Video

The universe is 100 million years older than we thought until now

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These two images show the same piece of sky in the Boötes group, known as the "rapid accretion belt. The area covers one degree by 0.12 degrees. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC

Spitzer captured the oldest light in the universe

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multiverse From Wikipedia

Does Rabbi Yokom really exist?/George F. R. Ellis

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Milestones in the expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cold end of the universe

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Einstein

The Cosmological Constant: Einstein's Serious Mistake That Led to the Nobel Prize in Physics Part II

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expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

"The discovery of the Nobel laureates is the most important discovery in cosmology in the last decades"

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Prof. Sol Perlmutter from Berkeley, one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

"The phenomenon of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is a phenomenon that is observed and everyone is now convinced that it is real, but no one understands it"

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A portrait of Baruch Spinoza painted in 1655. From Wikipedia

Who is the scientist's God?

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The different alternatives to the universe - it turns out that it is expanding even faster than they thought

A journey through the universe following "dark energy"

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Inside the Large Hadron Collider tunnel in Sarn, Geneva. Photo: CERN

How was the universe created? The riddle is not eternal

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Planck's first light

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Watch the formation of the universe through microwaves

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There are still obstacles to the development of an AIDS vaccine, in the meantime we must help the patients in Africa

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The Herschel and Planck space telescopes were successfully launched

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Cosmic belts can solve the problem of excess positrons in regions of the universe

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A busy year is expected for Europe in space

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Atmospheres of super earth globes

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