Cosmology

The Universe in a Chocolate Creme Egg

Can chocolate cream eggs help explain the mysteries of the Universe? As part of the University of Nottingham’s Sixty Symbols…

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President Obama to Attend Endeavour’s Last Launch on April 29

[/caption] President Barack Obama and the entire First Family apparently plan to attend the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour,…

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Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe’s Expansion

[/caption] Since the late 20th century, astronomers have been aware of data that suggest the universe is not only expanding,…

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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Assumptions

[/caption] The current standard model of the universe, Lambda-Cold Dark Matter, assumes that the universe is expanding in accordance with…

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A New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time

[/caption] Trying to understand the warping of space and time is something like visualizing a scene from Alice in Wonderland…

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Halos Gone MAD

[/caption] One of the successes of the ΛCDM model of the universe is the ability for models to create structures…

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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Inferred Universe

[/caption] The universe is a big place - and getting bigger all the time - so at a large scale…

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Cosmology 101: The End

[/caption] Welcome back to the third, and last, installment of Cosmology 101. So far, we've covered the history of the…

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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Dark Statistics

[/caption] The hypothetical dark flow seen in the movement of galaxy clusters requires that we can reliably identify a clear…

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Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought

[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…

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