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  How the Universe Has Cooled Since the Big Bang Fits Big Bang Theory

  January 23, 2013 — Astronomers have taken the universe's temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory ... > full story
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  NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

  January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story
• Cosmic Rays
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  Nearby Universe's 'Cosmic Fog' Measured

  January 19, 2013 — Researchers have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background light in the nearby universe, a fog of photons that has filled the universe ever since its ... > full story
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  Dynamic, Dark Energy in an Accelerating Universe

  January 14, 2013 — A new model is contributing towards understanding the nature of dark energy. If dark energy did not exist, the gravitational pull exerted by matter would slow down the expansion of the universe, but ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Astronomers Find Massive Supply of Gas Around Modern Galaxies

  January 11, 2013 — Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel -- in this case, fresh gas -- but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now, scientists have ... > full story
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  Biggest Structure in Universe: Large Quasar Group Is 4 Billion Light Years Across

  January 11, 2013 — Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross ... > full story
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  Dark Energy Alternatives to Einstein Are Running out of Room

  January 9, 2013 — Astronomers have found that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein's theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  First 'Bone' of the Milky Way Identified

  January 8, 2013 — Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the ... > full story
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  New Telescopes to Give Researchers Glimpse of the Beginning of Time

  January 8, 2013 — Where do we come from? What is the universe made of? Will the universe exist only for a finite time or will it last forever? These are just some of the questions that physicists are working to answer ... > full story
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  At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet, Analysis Finds

  January 7, 2013 — The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about ... > full story

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