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Looking for life? Look for pollution.
Four-thousand years on Earth and we’ve a lot of dirt to show for it. Why would an advanced alien civilization be any different? That’s the motivation that three astrophysicists from Harvard University have used to determine that powerful telescopes could look for signs … Continue reading
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Tagged absorption spectroscopy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, James Webb Space Telescope, tetrafluoromethane, trichlorofluoromethane
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Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data. Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Large Hadron Collider
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