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Astronomers have used all sorts of tricks over the years to try to convey the mind-boggling scale of the universe to us ordinary folks. If you could drive your car from here to the nearest star at 60 ...

Penrose's idea of a conformal cyclic cosmology hypothesizes that our Universe arose from a pre-existing Universe that would leave imprints on our cosmos today. This is a fascinating and imaginative ...

It’s hard to fathom the size of the universe. But two Stony Brook University professors are part of a project designed to do just that — an effort scientists say is making advances. Researchers in the ...

Image: When a large nearby object, such as a galaxy, blocks a distant object, such as another galaxy, the light can detour around the blockage. But instead of taking a single path, light can bend ...

The 1920 Shapley-Curtis debate concerned the scale of the universe, with Curtis correctly proposing a universe composed of many galaxies ("island universes"), while Shapley correctly posited the Sun's ...

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...

From subatomic particles to galaxies billions of light-years away, the scale of the universe is beyond mind-blowing—yet most of us can barely grasp it. This video breaks down the cosmic vastness step ...

The universe is vast, beyond what we can truly comprehend. But how big is it, really? In this video, we explore the incredible size of the universe, from its observable limits to the theories that ...

WASHINGTON — An ultraprecise new galaxy map is shedding light on the properties of dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion. A team of ...

As evidenced by the diagrams that make up the Tree of Knowledge System, I think it is valuable that we teach individuals broad frames to think about the Universe and our place in it. That was why I ...