Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
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There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
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Such discoveries help researchers better understand the development of molecular complexity in space during star formation.
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“It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before.”
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
Just 460 light-years away, the closest newborn protostars are forming in the Taurus molecular cloud. Here are JWST’s astonishing insights.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we’ve probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.