Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space
It’s time to say goodbye to one of the most storied explorers of our age: Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space, NASA announced December 10th. Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, has spent more four decades...
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15,000 galaxies shine in this 1 view from the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has been at work for almost three decades, but it’s still learning new skills — like how to squeeze an incredible 15,000 galaxies into a single image. That’s the feat Hubble accomplished...
Entropy/Complexity
It’s misleading to make out entropy is just the universe’s tendency towards disorder. Like most things in physics, it’s much bigger than that, and more convoluted. But ‘winding down’ is a big part of...
The Big Bang might have been just a Big Bounce
The universe is currently expanding and it is a common theory that this is the result of the ‘Big Bang‘ – the universe bursting into existence from a point of infinitely dense and hot...