Scientists analyzed data obtained by NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt and their results were rather surprising – there are a lot fewer galaxies in the universe than previously thought. It was previously stated that there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the universe but new research has revealed that there. Read more »
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One of the Hubble Space Telescope s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single patch of seemingly empty sky for hundreds of hours beginning in September 2003, and astronomers first unveiled this galaxy tapestry in 2004, with more observations in subsequent years.
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
Published: 19 Dec 2020 12:52 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Dec 2020 12:52 PM BdST Astronomers find the universe to be a little brighter. ‘There’s something out there unknown.’ (Guy Billout/The New York Times)
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That might be the last news you expected to hear toward the darkening end of a dark year. But that is what a band of astronomers has discovered, using cameras on the New Horizons spacecraft that once visited Pluto to measure the darkness of interplanetary space.
“There’s something out there unknown,” said Tod Lauer, of the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. “The universe is not completely dark, and we don’t yet completely know what it comprises.”