... Western, with plans to extend the data sets to distant galaxies just a few billion years after the big bang, those involved are hoping to learn whether the same relation holds for the lifetime of the Universe.
... universe, from which we see the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the light “left over” from the Big Bang. Fluctuations in the CMB as observed by the recent ESA Planck satellite mission are shown. The bulk of the...
... already given scientists a snapshot of how the early Universe looked by studying the leftover radiation from the big bang; the cosmic microwave background (C. But since that very early epoch in the Universe’s history, the gravity...
... when the Universe was only about 30 percent of its current age – about 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Light from such a distant source would normally be incredibly difficult if not impossible to spot, however the international...
... to help trace the ancestry of many stars, and therefore show how the Universe just after the big bang, went from having just the lightest elements hydrogen and helium, to being filled with all the...
... billion times that of the Sun, has been found by astronomers just two billion years after the Big Bang. Its overwhelming size has earned it the nickname Hyperion and it is the largest and most massive structure...