(Image: Stephan's Quintet, also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stephan's Quintet is a group of five galaxies, but group member NGC 7320, at upper right, is ...
VANCOUVER, Canada — Hidden in the peaks and valleys imprinted on the cosmic microwave background — the radiation leftover from the Big Bang — is a wealth of information not only about the early ...
A new analysis of ‘cool’ spots in the cosmic microwave background may cast new doubts on a key piece of evidence supporting the big bang theory of how the universe was formed. Two scientists at The ...