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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What is quantum gravity? Scientists think it could explain the beginning of our universe ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed prior to the dawn of time. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JAqBLdgah8EH4oWJvvK7na-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration shows matter rushing forward from a singularity at the dawn of time during the Big Bang.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A blue sparkle of light at the center of the image is surrounded by orange, red and purple clouds swirling outward.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Did our cosmos begin inside a black hole in another universe? New study questions Big Bang theory ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/did-our-cosmos-begin-inside-a-black-hole-in-another-universe-new-study-questions-big-bang-theory</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead formed inside a colossal black hole. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Black Holes]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Victoria Corless ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uoVABLPtXFtVAJ7kB4pMmG-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Conceptual illustration depicting matter transitioning from a black hole to a white hole.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a black void divides two halves of the image, each filled with stars and colorful clouds of gas. in the center of the void, a cone-shaped structure can be seen transporting clouds of gas from left to right]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ While headlines around the world claimed that these galaxies were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8YdEfW8BQVC4RoDEyxoYWM-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Is the universe still making new galaxies? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/are-new-galaxies-still-forming</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ We think of galaxies as ancient. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, formed 13.6 billion years ago, and the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed us to peer back to some of the first galaxies in the early universe. But are galaxies still being born today? ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mMo5LNhsnHJtAvBA6DkxcX-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ We see these galaxies as they were over 13.45 billion years ago, just between 330 and 350 million years after the Big Bang. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:01:09 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fBx3z3Uk5aBFxtyAZsZABc-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The JWST&#039;s view of Pandora&#039;s Cluster. This is the cluster that served as a gravitational lens for the new galactic findings.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A crowded galaxy field on a black background, with one large star dominating the image just right of center. Three areas are concentrated with larger white hazy blobs on the left, lower right, and upper right above the single star. Scattered between these areas are many smaller sources of light; some also have a hazy white glow, while many other are red or orange.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How did the universe's elements form? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ We all know the universe contains a vast array of elements, ranging from light gases, such as helium, to heavy metals, like lead. But where did all of the elements come from? ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TqTTvwW4CjjMvBp4JiThc9-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A model of the big bang showing a large explosion that produces the rest of the universe.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A model of the big bang showing a large explosion that produces the rest of the universe]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in space caused by the Big Bang ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new method to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the universe could help measure cosmic distances more accurately. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:42:15 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DSfvjPKbQvL7tvGghPZ3a4-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[(Zosia Rostomian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A representation of what BAO distributions sort of look like.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Several circles outline galaxies around central points.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Are we really made of 'star stuff' and what does that even mean? (video) ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-meaning-truth</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomer Carl Sagan once said that humanity is "made of star stuff." In a new video, astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains what that actually means and where the elements in our body come from. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iK2z2hmvofsyctxaWZG726-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI/Robert Lea]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The elements in our bodies were blasted into the universe by supernovas like the one pictured]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The elements in our bodies were blasted into the universe by supernovas like the one pictured]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Earendel revealed: James Webb Space Telescope lifts veil on the most distant star known in the universe ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have begun getting the goods on Earendel, the most distant star ever detected. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:48:55 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Wall ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kMtze2AKumyMNR64bkHqwQ-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (STScI/AURA for ESA; Johns Hopkins University), B. Welch (NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center; University of Maryland, College Park). Image processing: Z. Levay.]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Imagery by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals that Earendel, the most distant known star in the universe, is a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our sun, and about a million times more luminous.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A view of dozens of distant galaxies in deep space, with a zoomed-in view of one.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The coming Square Kilometre Array could shed light on mysterious dark matter, revealing the role it played in the formation of the universe's first galaxies. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:40:17 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ymauZcgWttRgtoumXmyxGd-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NAOC &amp; NEU]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration shows early galaxies wrapped in dark matter lurking in an ominous shadowland representing the &quot;21 centimeter forest.&quot;]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[illustration showing several small galaxies encased in bubbles hovering above a forest-like landscape ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The 1st light to flood the universe can help unravel the history of the cosmos. Here's how ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a "cosmic fossil," the universe's first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:30:57 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:48:52 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LZAGTGDj2DKcHsEP7TwV6N-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESA and the Planck Collaboration]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An image of the CMB taken by the Planck telescope shows tiny variations that can be revealing to cosmologists]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An image of the CMB taken by the Planck telescope shows tiny variations that can be revealing to cosmologists]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Who is the Euclid 'dark universe' space telescope named after? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Dark matter and dark energy distort traditional Euclidean geometry in the universe, and the Euclid mission will measure how much they distort it by. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Space Exploration]]></category>
                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8ruAUk6URTqdRZoJKDFAJn-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Work performed by ATG under contract for ESA, CC BY-SA]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Rendering of the Euclid telescope in space.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Euclid is set to launch this year on a rocket built by SpaceX.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why didn't the infant universe collapse into a black hole? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Black Holes]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G32CEcsuC7tnoXGtrg5yaY-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of star formation in the early universe, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[spindly purple swirls in deep space, representing star formation in the early universe]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ A dynamic form of dark energy may explain strange radiation signal from the early universe ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ We may have already found evidence of an evolving, dynamic kind of dark energy, in the form of the radiation emitted when the first stars appeared in the universe. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:38:41 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yHenHqtMKYqEno7k6HCEif-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The hunt for elusive dark energy could finally be solved thanks to a strange radiation emission from the universe&#039;s earliest stars.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[dark energy depicted as wispy clouds of energy and material]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Stephen Hawking's most famous prediction could mean that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate, new study says ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new theory has radically revised Stephen Hawking's 1974 theory of black holes to predict that all objects with mass may eventually disappear. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Black Holes]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ben Turner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dRLm7pAVET8hHr6HBs7pJU-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s illustration of three black holes merging.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s illustration of three black holes merging.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope spies earliest complex organic molecules in the universe ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the oldest known examples of complex organic molecules in the universe, a new study reports. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[James Webb Space Telescope]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ cqchoi@sciwriter.us (Charles Q. Choi) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Charles Q. Choi ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pTg8LzSkqoZd4o7ggEtmAi-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules similar to smoke or smog in the distant galaxy shown here. The galaxy, more than 12 billion light years away, happens to line up almost perfectly with a second galaxy only 3 billion light years away from our perspective on Earth. In this false-color Webb image, the foreground galaxy is shown in blue, while the background galaxy is red. The organic molecules are highlighted in orange.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[James Webb Space Telescope image of a complex organic molecules in a distant galaxy, shown as a blurry red ring around a light-blue splotch that is a foreground galaxy.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Milky Way's cosmic neighbors help bring ancient galaxies into focus ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers are snooping on the Milky Way's galactic neighbors to gain insights about the ancient galaxies being viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Galaxies]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZUCPV8a2B5n5wGQjYJMKHH-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Two of 45 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and analyzed in a recent study. The colors indicate infrared, visual, and ultraviolet light from the stars in the galaxies.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[two galaxies in deep space side by side, the one of the left a roughly circular shape, the one on the right resembling a fishhook.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Cosmic monsters found lurking at heart of ancient star clusters by the James Webb Space Telescope ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that supermassive stars may lurk at the heart of globular clusters born shortly after the Big Bang. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 16 May 2023 20:56:53 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UThUJb8VE9SJUCtfAf8n3A-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The globular cluster Messier 13, or the Hercules Cluster, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Somewhere at the heart of this dense stellar crowd may lie cosmic monsters known as superstars.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a dense cluster of stars in space]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How fast is the universe expanding? New supernova data could help nail it down  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A warp in the fabric of space and time that acted like a giant magnifying glass may help solve a celestial mystery about the rate of the universe's expansion. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:04:24 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ cqchoi@sciwriter.us (Charles Q. Choi) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Charles Q. Choi ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/92AL6mKYhZtNhrhcQxSb2V-1280-80.jpeg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA, ESA, and S. Rodney (JHU) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu (UCLA), P. Kelly (UC Berkeley) and the GLASS team; J. Lotz (STScI) and the Frontier Fields Team; M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH team; and Z. Levay (STScI)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the many red galaxies are members of the massive MACS J1149.6+2223 cluster, which creates distorted and highly magnified images of the galaxies behind it. A large cluster galaxy (center of the box) has split the light from the distant supernova SN Refsdal, which lies in a magnified background galaxy, into four yellow images (arrows) to form an Einstein Cross. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the many red galaxies are members of the massive MACS J1149.6+2223 cluster, which creates distorted and highly magnified images of the galaxies behind it. A large cluster galaxy (center of the box) has split the light from the distant supernova SN Refsdal, which lies in a magnified background galaxy, into four yellow images (arrows) to form an Einstein Cross. ]]></media:text>
                                <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the many red galaxies are members of the massive MACS J1149.6+2223 cluster, which creates distorted and highly magnified images of the galaxies behind it. A large cluster galaxy (center of the box) has split the light from the distant supernova SN Refsdal, which lies in a magnified background galaxy, into four yellow images (arrows) to form an Einstein Cross. ]]></media:title>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Mysterious dark energy is spread evenly across the cosmos ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Dark energy, the mysterious force apparently driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, is spread uniformly across space and time, new observations of massive galaxy clusters suggest. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:37:34 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4L6sYUFmXX9BmTYhnkx58c-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[X-ray (top) and optical pseudo-color (below) images of three low-mass galaxy clusters studied by the eROSITA instrument. The highest-redshift cluster comes from a time when the universe was approximately 10 billion years younger than it is today. The cluster galaxies in that case are clearly much redder than the galaxies in the other two clusters.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[X-ray (top) and optical pseudo-color (below) images of three low-mass galaxy clusters studied by the eROSITA instrument. The highest-redshift cluster comes from a time when the universe was approximately 10 billion years younger than it is today. The cluster galaxies in that case are clearly much redder than the galaxies in the other two clusters.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Giant proto-galaxy in early universe devours recycled material to birth new stars ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A faraway proto-galaxy has been observed feeding on recycled material, shedding more light on how galaxies sustain star birth across eons. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 18:01:39 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Galaxies]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CmhPYsGkWVe5dM349hHjt8-1280-80.jpeg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESO/M. Kornmesser]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Artist&#039;s impression of a protocluster of galaxies forming in the early universe.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Artist&#039;s impression of a protocluster of galaxies forming in the early universe.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Guts of the universe's 1st stars found in distant gas clouds ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers have found the fingerprints of material dispersed by the supernova deaths of the universe's first stars in distant gas clouds. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 17:19:36 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Stars]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BKTtwpnQfK2Wtt4uWPWub3-1280-80.jpeg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESO/L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ New dark matter map created with 'cosmic fossil' shows Einstein was right (again) ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The mapping of matter in the cosmos helps to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity and reveals more about mysterious dark matter. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:00:31 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:35:42 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xBG2kAz9c7nzhyXDkGLq7E-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A new map of the sky, made with observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, showing dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; magenta where there is less. Typical features are hundreds of millions of light-years across.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A new map of the sky, made with observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, showing dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; magenta where there is less. Typical features are hundreds of millions of light-years across.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope eyes Hubble Ultra Deep Field in stunning detail (photo) ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looked at the same distant patch of sky that Hubble did, revealing yet more detail in the famous Ultra Deep Field. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TQrWC9tpuQwV3EydDac7T4-1280-80.jpeg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Christina Williams (NSF&#039;s NOIRLab), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), Michael Maseda (UW-Madison). Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was taken by the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb image observes the field at depths comparable to Hubble – revealing galaxies of similar faintness – in just one-tenth as much observing time.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was taken by the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb image observes the field at depths comparable to Hubble – revealing galaxies of similar faintness – in just one-tenth as much observing time.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'Hubble trouble' could deepen with new measurement of the universe's expansion ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Cosmologists have a problem: Their measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe don't agree. And a new, highly accurate measurement of variable stars could deepen this 'Hubble trouble.' ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZpRGSdk9k39oaYsch4ohYT-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope spies most ancient galaxies ever observed ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-most-ancient-galaxies</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The James Webb Space Telescope's ability to study the early universe has been solidified by the confirmation that it has imaged four galaxies as they were just 350 million years after the Big Bang. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:46:29 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[James Webb Space Telescope]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5pW9Wp7dQSmrUZEtMyNeAB-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Artist&#039;s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Artist&#039;s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The universe might be shaped like a doughnut, not like a pancake, new research suggests ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/universe-might-be-shaped-like-doughnut-not-pancake</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cvaEEWWuhMuFc8FmnNSN8n-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An image of the cosmic microwave background as taken by the Planck satellite. The size of fluctuations in the CMB suggest the universe is flat, but new research suggests it could still be twisty.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[purple, pink and magneta elliptical image of cosmic microwave background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/gravitational-waves-fractures-space-time-early-universe</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The early universe may have been such a violent place that space-time itself fractured like a pane of glass, releasing gravitational waves that astronomers say we may have already detected. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:00:49 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:43:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xQ7vSHFwA7Z2vXBx5BsngU-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library / Getty Images]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[a series of ripples on a blue grid background]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a series of ripples on a blue grid background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang, new research suggests ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/dark-energy-2nd-big-bang-research</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Scientists have proposed a way that the universe could stop expanding, ending in a 'Big Crunch' that resets space and time as we know it. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:43:12 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Be5EtabBFPuMQfT4yjiLpU-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A Hubble telescope image showing multiple generations of stars densely layered in a nearby galaxy.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a colorful field of stars in deep space]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Only filmed interview with Georges Lemaître, 'father of the Big Bang,' rediscovered after 60 years ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/lost-georges-lemaitre-big-bang-interview-recovered</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The only known filmed interview with physicist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaître, who originally proposed the Big Bang theory, has been found on a video that was lost nearly 60 years ago. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:44:16 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Harry Baker ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gPr7QRZYbsJvLJWU8MXBNZ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A still of Georges Lemaître, known as the father of the Big Bang, from the rediscovered video.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A still of Georges Lemaître from the rediscovered video.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ No, the Big Bang theory is not 'broken.' Here's how we know. ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-didnt-break-big-bang-explained</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Researchers confirmed that the distant galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope are, indeed, perfectly compatible with our modern understanding of cosmology. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:36:48 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cMDRA3454bGvfZASbxviZe-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The first publicly released science-quality image from NASA&#039;s James Webb Space Telescope, revealed on July 11, 2022, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The first publicly released science-quality image from NASA&#039;s James Webb Space Telescope, revealed on July 11, 2022, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'The Short Story of the Universe' fits a big topic into your pocket ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/the-short-story-of-the-universe-book-gemma-lavender</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The latest book from All About Space editor Gemma Lavender is 'The Short Story of the Universe.' It rounds up our complicated cosmic history in an engaging guide. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:00:38 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:41:10 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Howell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PLWfUAj58g37xAzaF3RcpN-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Laurence King Publishing]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Cover art for &quot;The Short Story of the Universe.&quot;]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[the short story of the universe]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How do we know the fundamental constants are constant? We don't. ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/are-fundamental-constants-of-universe-constant</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Physicists have measured no changes in time or space for any of the fundamental constants of nature. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 23 May 2025 17:19:09 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Fn7echSinkSoRq6U5yH8Z3-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value called the Hubble constant. All the steps involve building a strong &quot;cosmic distance ladder,&quot; by starting with measuring accurate distances to nearby galaxies and then moving to galaxies farther and farther away. This ladder is a series of measurements of different kinds of astronomical objects with an intrinsic brightness that researchers can use to calculate distances.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value called the Hubble constant. All the steps involve building a strong &quot;cosmic distance ladder,&quot; by starting with measuring accurate distances to nearby galaxies and then moving to galaxies farther and farther away. This ladder is a series of measurements of different kinds of astronomical objects with an intrinsic brightness that researchers can use to calculate distances.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How was the universe created? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/how-was-the-universe-created</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ We don't really know how the universe was created, though most astrophysicists believe it started with the Big Bang. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8troZt8tvaciTeCxYRKd57-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s conception of the Big Bang birthing multiple galaxies.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s conception of the Big Bang birthing multiple galaxies.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Beautiful interactive map of the universe lets you journey through space-time almost to the Big Bang ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/interactive-universe-map-back-to-big-bang</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new interactive map of the cosmos allows users to journey from our galaxy to the most distant sources of light that existed just after the Big Bang. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:35:43 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/smU3uQMQ589j5Nkmz9k65N-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[B. Menard &amp; N. Shtarkman]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An interactive map of the universe displaying the actual positions and real colors of 200,000 galaxies.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An interactive map of the universe displaying the actual positions and real colors of 200,000 galaxies.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the earliest galaxies of the universe like never before, scientists say ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies-early-results</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ NASA's newest space telescope has left scientists seeing distant stars — and galaxies. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ mbartels@space.com (Meghan Bartels) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Meghan Bartels ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PF67PAxiGZccwSokDJ2FHa-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA/ESA/CSA/Tommaso Treu (UCLA)/Zolt G. Levay (STScI)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An image of the deep universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, in which two particularly distant galaxies are identified.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[left and right panels show many galaxies; a central panel offers a detailed view of two galaxies]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Wrinkles left over from the Big Bang may have magnetized the universe ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/big-bang-cosmic-strings-magnetic-fields</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Researchers have proposed what's perhaps the most exotic explanation to date for the source of the universe's seed magnetic field: cosmic strings. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/krCBEB9b3rsecKk8EwrKiM-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Cosmic strings left over from the Big Bang may be responsible for the universe&#039;s magnetic fields.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[glowing orange strings]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'Bouncing' universe theory still can't explain what came first ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ New research highlights a troubling problem with the concept of a cyclical universe that experiences infinite expansion and contraction, known as 'bouncing universe' models. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TysbkBdZLcjX6nBQexMBCN-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A bouncing model of the universe could do away with an initial singularity, but come with its own problems. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An illustration showing the bouncing universe model. Two cone-shaped grids full of stars and galaxies are arranged closed end to closed end.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Famous Higgs boson behaves just as expected, 'most comprehensive studies' confirm ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The "most comprehensive studies" of the Higgs boson conducted to date reveal that the particle behaves as expected and could help unlock some of the greatest mysteries of physics. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:41:53 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ tereza.pultarova@futurenet.com (Tereza Pultarova) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Tereza Pultarova ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L4bMMsgRkSYGqNxmJdyHXS-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The ATLAS instrument at CERN&#039;s Large Hadron Collider has detected millions of Higgs boson particles.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The ATLAS instrument at the Large Hadron Collider.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Large Hadron Collider scientists hail most powerful collisions ever as detector gets back to work ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/large-hadron-collider-scientists-excited-run-3</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back with more powerful collisions than ever before and scientists are thrilled to see what they can learn. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:42:59 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Howell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ERYXmkcxr4Adfhdce5BX3F-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ New simulation charts how the early universe developed within seconds of the Big Bang ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/big-bang-new-simulation-intergalactic-medium</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:42:45 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Howell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n8gE6kip4MpRPzALhXTBSJ-1280-80.jpeg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Claudio Dalla Vecchia]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A simulation of a galaxy cluster forming and evolving.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A simulation of a galaxy cluster forming and evolving.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ World's most powerful heavy-ion collider to go online this week ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/worlds-most-powerful-heavy-ion-collider</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The collider cost $730 million and is many decades in the making ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:38:31 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ben Turner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZnjHvcj6uVESusG2GGcZ4V-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The FRIB&#039;s 46 cryomodules, which keep the ions cool while they are accelerated to blistering speeds.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The FRIB&#039;s 46 cryomodules, which keep the ions cool while they are accelerated to blistering speeds.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ A particle accelerator is now colder than space to produce 1 million X-ray pulses a second ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/coldest-x-ray-laser-particle-accelerator</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ At that temperature, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser will be able to accelerate electrons close to the speed of light. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 18:30:41 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:40:39 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stefanie Waldek ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zEUfNxatrfher7PitpRM3J-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A view of the tunnel housing part of the upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A view of the tunnel housing part of the upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Stronger gravity in the early universe may solve a cosmological conundrum ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/stronger-gravity-early-universe</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The inflationary epoch that caused our universe to rapidly expand in its earliest moments may be connected to the modern era of dark energy. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:40:56 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/U9tpjustKw3NKowCSFmRdC-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library via Getty Images]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Was gravity stronger in the early universe?]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Was gravity stronger in the early universe?]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Large Hadron Collider experiment investigates neutrino's minuscule mass ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Scientists are investigating the elusive neutrino with a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 15:44:44 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:42:35 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MwSfuKFBbLAbfoty8cSXRA-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A data visualization of particle collisions at the LHC at CERN.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A data visualization of particle collisions at the LHC at CERN.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 10 cosmic mysteries the Large Hadron Collider could unravel ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/large-hadron-collider-biggest-mysteries-universe</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ What mysteries of the universe could the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator unlock? ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:43:03 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QjywYLMwgFh8RNJhMQSK2o-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration of hypothetically interacting dark matter particles. As we anticipate Run 3 with the LHC at Cern in 2022, scientists look forward to exploring the universe&#039;s biggest mysteries, including dark matter.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An illustration of hypothetically interacting dark matter particles. As we anticipate Run 3 with the LHC at Cern in 2022, scientists look forward to exploring the universe&#039;s biggest mysteries, including dark matter.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The universe could stop expanding 'remarkably soon', study suggests ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The universe may stop expanding in just 100 million years if dark energy decays over time, a new study suggests. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:45:23 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Brandon Specktor ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G32CEcsuC7tnoXGtrg5yaY-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of star formation in the early universe, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of star formation in the early universe, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Large Hadron Collider hits world record proton acceleration ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/cern-large-hadron-collider-record-energy-proton-beam</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The newly-upgraded Large Hadron Collider just broke a world record with its proton beams. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:52:54 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:43:12 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YTfR2ypjRANpYBEFjgBGh4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider restarted after a three-year shutdown on April 22, 2022.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider restarted after a three-year shutdown on April 22, 2022.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Large Hadron Collider restarts to push physics to the edge ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/large-hadron-collider-restarts-run-3</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Scientists restarted the Large Hadron Collider on April 22 to hunt for dark matter and fringe physics. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 12:53:21 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:42:19 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ tmalik@space.com (Tariq Malik) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Tariq Malik ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YTfR2ypjRANpYBEFjgBGh4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider restarted after a three-year shutdown on April 22, 2022.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider restarted after a three-year shutdown on April 22, 2022.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Upcoming satellite mission may 'see' how early universe cooled  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ As the early universe cooled shortly after the Big Bang, bubbles formed in its hot plasma, triggering gravitational waves that could be detectable even today, a new study suggests. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:59:43 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:16:43 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ ailsa.harvey@futurenet.com (Ailsa Harvey) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ailsa Harvey ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KJjkMZfy6Q5RRZ9595GbkJ-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[David Weir]]></media:credit>
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                                <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[Pressure waves]]></media:title>
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