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April 25, 2018

Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time By Thomas Sumner

Artistic illustration of newly discovered group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe

March 22, 2018

Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way By Thomas Sumner

A photo mosaic of an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy, looking toward the central bulge. The arc-shaped Magellanic Stream stretches below the galaxy’s plane and the shredded, fragmented Leading Arm crosses the galaxy’s plane and extends above it

March 19, 2018

Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Breaks Their Own Record, Gauss Center for Supercomputing

Composite which combines gas temperature (as the color) and shock mach number (as the brightness). Red indicates 10 million Kelvin gas at the centers of massive galaxy clusters, while bright structures show diffuse gas from the intergalactic medium shock heating at the boundary between cosmic voids and filaments

February 20, 2018

Astronomers’ Dark Energy Hopes Fade to Gray, The New York Times

A remnant from a Type 1A supernova observed in the Milky Way, one of the cosmic markers of how fast the universe is expanding

February 08, 2018

The Statistician Who Believed in Miracles, Bloomberg News

Drawing of Planet Apses, Sun Movement, Stars, Earth, Moon and Armillary Sphere

February 06, 2018

Stratospheric Ozone at Lower Latitudes Is Not Recovering, Despite Antarctic Ozone Hole Healing

Astronaut photograph ISS013-E-54329 showing how atmospheric gases scatter blue wavelengths of visible light more than other wavelengths, giving the Earth’s visible edge a blue halo

January 31, 2018

New Universe Simulation Reveals High-Resolution Details About Cosmological Structures

Rendering of the gas velocity in a thin slice of 100 kiloparsec thickness (in the viewing direction), centred on the second most massive galaxy cluster in the TNG100 calculation

December 06, 2017

Newly Discovered Goliath Galaxies from Early Universe Hint at Massive Dark Matter Trove By Thomas Sumner

Digital illustration of two titanic galaxies inhabited the early universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang