The Earliest Galaxies Formed Amazingly Fast After The Big Bang. Do They Break The Universe Or Change Its Age?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest and most distant known galaxies, which existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.
Light Pollution Has Cut Humanity’s Ancient Connection With The Stars – But We Can Restore It.
Humans are naturally afraid of the dark. We sometimes imagine monsters under the bed and walk faster down unlit streets at night. To conquer our fears, we may leave a night light on to scare away the monsters and a light over the porch to deter break-ins.
A New Generation of Telescopes Will Probe The ‘Unknown Unknowns’ That Could Transform Our Knowledge of The Universe
In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes – both on Earth and in space – has been a key part of this process, and those that are due to start operating over the next two decades should push the boundaries of our understanding of cosmology much further.