Caitlin Casey, an astronomer with the University of Texas and the Big Bend region’s McDonald Observatory, will co-lead the largest research project in the first year of the powerful new telescope’s operation.
It's hard to grasp how big galaxies are.
If you pointed a flashlight at the Milky Way's core you'd have to wait nearly 26,000 years for the light the fastest thing in the Universe! to get there. And we're not even halfway out to the edge of the galaxy; the flat circular spiral-armed disk of the Milky Way is fully 120,000 light years across.
IT’S BEEN a bit crowded around Mars this last month. The US mission Perseverance managed to touch down first.
It was looking for a bit of dried-up pond slime which is where they believe some remains of life on Mars might be found.
Most US citizens, especially Donald Trump’s special species of right-wing racist ignoramus, saw the invasion of Mars as a logical follow-up to the US invasions of Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, the moon, etc.
Life on Mars? If they did find Little Green Men they could soon blast them into extinction.
Next in the queue to land on our nearest planet was the Emirates Mars Mission from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency.
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IMAGE: Reconstruction of the cosmic web (shaded areas in grey in the left panel) based on a distribution of galaxies (in red in the left panel) and the primordial fluctuations (right. view more
Credit: Francisco-Shu Kitaura (IAC).
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic structures. This new computation method will permit the analysis of the evolution of the structure of dark matter from the early universe until the formation of present day galaxies. This work was recently published in the journal