Mexico Telescope to Shed Light on Cosmic Dark Ages
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Perched on the top of one of Mexico's highest mountains is a gigantic, half-built telescope that scientists hope will reveal more secrets of the universe's early years than any before it.
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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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A team working with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile report that our galaxy is 13,600 million years old, give or take 800 million years.
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Astronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.
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NASA scientists are using space satellites to unravel one of the great mysteries of the ancient world.  The long-lost secrets they're discovering could help modern people in Central America avoid the fate of the Maya.
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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A light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun could soon be helping scientists to read ancient manuscripts.
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Theorists probably right, after all Astronomers have uncovered more than 500 previously unknown young galaxies in images of the early universe taken during the Hubble Space Telescope's ultra deep field survey, completed in 2004, and the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), made in 2003.â¦
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 13--A proposed space telescope program led by a Tucson-based  astronomer is in a three-way race to answer the era's biggest cosmological  question: What is causing the expanding universe to accelerate?   Tod R.
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Teams of international scientists have   used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other   telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a   stellar explosion or supernova.
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Astronomers have estimated the age of our galaxy at about 13,600 million years old.
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SPACE.com / Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. Turns out the skywatchers had witnessed the spectacular explosion of a dying star.
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered pointing to the existence of ancient Sun cults, scientists report.
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.
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PASADENA, Calif. - An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens for ultraviolet light sources has found evidence of massive &quot;baby&quot; galaxies that runs counter to a belief that the aging universe is now only forming small new galaxies.