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Exploring the Limits of the Observable Universe

Discover how the universe stretches beyond comprehension and how telescopes like Hubble and James Webb reveal galaxies at the ...
This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series here. In a sense, we are at the centre ...
Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...
The universe contains roughly 2 trillion galaxies and countless mysteries, including dark matter, supermassive black holes, the nature of time, and the absence of observable aliens.
Many astronomers have wondered where the center of the universe is. If the Big Bang created the entire observable universe, then it stands to reason that the event had a point of origin. As it turns ...