The UK has joined an international mission to try and understand the first moments of the universe just fractions of a second after it came into existence.
And is there anything more extreme than peering back on the infancy of the universe?
Dr. Nicholas Galitzki has spent much of the past four years at more than 17,000 feet in Atacama, Chile. Highly specialized radio telescopes there have been gathering some of the earliest free-floating photons to have escaped the ultra-dense, opaque pudding that had coalesced some 400,000 years after the big bang â the cold, faint echo of creation first identified about 50 years ago and dubbed the cosmic microwave background.
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Donât worry: Dr. Nick will explain all of that and more at the January edition of Wyoming Stargazingâs âWorld Above the Tetonsâ speaker series, Zooming at you starting at 7 p.m. Friday.