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Furthering the exploration of space
(12 May 2021)
Our experts are working on the European Extremely Large Telescope. Credit ESO-L. Calçada.
Durham’s researchers are helping to build some of the world’s most powerful new telescopes to further our exploration of space.
Our astronomers and cosmologists are also involved major international projects that will hunt two of the universe’s most mysterious ingredients – dark matter and dark energy – and investigate how the universe formed.
We’ve helped build components for NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the successor to Hubble – which will launch in October 2021.
Our astronomers will use the JWST to hunt for dark matter and investigate early galaxy formation.
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Sideswipe: Beauty is in the eye of Instagram
15 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
2 minutes to read Instagram, and facial editing apps like Facetune, have created a single type of face and body that is considered objectively beautiful. This face looks almost like a 3D rendition of a human and a lot like a Bratz Doll. Jia Tolentino in the
New Yorker describes it as the emergence, among professionally beautiful women, as a single cyborgian face. It s a young face, of course, with poreless skin and plump high cheekbones. It has cat-like eyes and long, cartoonish lashes; it has a small neat nose and full, lush lips. It looks at you coyly but blankly as if it s owner has taken half a Klonopin ( a tranquilizer) and is considering asking you for a private-jet ride to Coachella.The face is distinctly white, but ambiguously ethnic it suggests a