NPR speaks to CCA astrophysicist Rachel Somerville, who is among the many researchers engulfed by a whirlwind of possible discoveries from the $10 billion telescope's early sightings.
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Announced today from the White House with NASA, the image shows a small portion of the sky — comparable to the span of a grain of sand held at arm’s length — enhanced considerably by the JWST’s light-collecting power. The result is a view of thousands of galaxies. The more remote ones date to a time more than 13 billion years ago, not long after the dawn of the universe, and have been magnified into view by a massive galaxy in the foreground.
Using a pair of meter-long, vibrating metal beams, scientists have made a new measurement of “Big G,” also known as Newton’s gravitational constant, researchers report July 11 in Nature Physics. The technique could help physicists get a better handle on the poorly measured constant.
Maryna Viazovska, a Ukrainian who is now a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is known for proofs for higher-dimensional equivalents of the stacking of equal- sized spheres. She is also only the second woman ever to win the Fields Medal.
With a new host of questions, CERN plans to restart the particle accelerator this month to possibly better understand cosmic unknowns like dark matter.
After a three-year shutdown for repairs and upgrades, the collider has resumed shooting protons around its 17-mile electromagnetic underground racetrack. In early July, the collider will begin crashing these particles together to create sparks of primordial energy.
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