An illustration of the first stars turning on in the Universe. Without metals to cool down the clumps of gas that lead to the formation of the first stars, only the largest clumps within a large-mass cloud will wind up...
The COSMOS-Web survey, the largest cycle 1 General Observers JWST program, was proposed in 2021 (right) as a large-area survey overlapping with the COSMOS field acquired with Hubble. On the left, the full, completed COSMOS-Web field is shown. (Credit: COSMOS-Web...
This overhead image shows the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, where powerful accelerators create muons that are guided into this electromagnetic bending ring, where a magnetic field is then applied to exquisitely measure the magnetic moment of the muon. With...
Back prior to 1923, no one knew whether Andromeda was a galaxy beyond the Milky Way or an object present within our own galaxy. With Hubble’s key observations in October of that year, we measured the distance to Andromeda, and...
December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully into orbit from an Ariane 5 rocket. Rocketry has been the only way we’ve ever successfully propelled a spacecraft any substantial distances through space, and we’ve successfully used rockets to...
A 3D map of the dark matter distribution in the cosmos. By measuring the average shape of galaxies throughout the Universe, scientists can detect whether there are any distortions due solely to the presence of intervening mass. This technique, of...
The Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around Sun, which in turn orbits around the galactic center at speeds of hundreds of km/s. In our neighborhood, the speed of the Sun and the other stars around the galactic center...
This image shows the inside of the spectrometer that’s part of the KATRIN experiment, which collects electrons and measures their energies from their emission due to the radioactive decay of tritium. Through this method, we can measure (or constrain) the...
An illustration of the first stars turning on in the Universe. Without metals to cool down the clumps of gas that lead to the formation of the first stars, only the largest clumps within a large-mass cloud will wind up...
During cosmological inflation, the space contained in the inflationary region grows exponentially, doubling in all three dimensions with each tiny fraction-of-a-second that passes. Where inflation ends, a hot Big Bang ensues. But due to quantum effects, each region where a...
