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David H. DeVorkin is emeritus senior curator in the history of astronomy and the space sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. What is the Universe?

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PHOENIX — An abnormally huge cosmic structure has put a ring on it — and that bling might threaten a fundamental assumption of cosmology. A ring of dense matter spans more than 3.3 billion light-years ...

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...