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darkmattercrisis.wordpress.com
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| | | | | The following is a guest post by Indranil Banik. Indranil is a PHD student at the University of Saint Andrews, part of the Scottish Universities' Physics Alliance. He was born in Kolkata, India and moved to the UK with his parents a few years later.Indranil works on conducting tests to try and distinguish between standard... | |
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www.nature.com
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| | | | | Type Ia supernovae are thought to result from the explosion of white dwarf stars but a full understanding of their formation is lacking. In this review, Howell describes how large surveys are generating sufficient data to challenge and refine existing theories. Empirically, Type Ia supernovae are the most useful, precise, and mature tools for determining astronomical distances. Acting as calibrated candles they revealed the presence of dark energy and are being used to measure its properties. However, th... | |
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tritonstation.com
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| | | | | The results from the high redshift universe keep pouring in from JWST. It is a full time job, and then some, just to keep track. One intriguing aspect is the luminosity density of the universe at z > 10. I had not thought this to be problematic for LCDM, as it only depends on the... | |
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science.nasa.gov
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| | | Even before the Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990, astronomers began posing the question: What is the next step after Hubble? | ||
