01-26-2017, 05:42 PM
A couple of recent news items regarding the MK observatories (in this case, both involving Keck):
"W. M. Keck Observatory Will Peer Deep into the Cosmic Web"
https://goo.gl/c0Sbjy
Basically, it's known that early galaxies and their evolution (including galaxies such as our own) were fueled by gas surrounding them, but the gas is so faint it's difficult to study, but that may now change.
"Astronomers measure universe expansion, get hints of 'new physics'"
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-cosmic-len...nsion.html
Possibly a huge discovery, but a lot of work needs to be done to really understand this, but the universe may be expanding much faster than we thought, which opens up the possibility of new physics we know nothing about at this point.
Cosmology always makes my head hurt, so won't expand on this too much!
"W. M. Keck Observatory Will Peer Deep into the Cosmic Web"
https://goo.gl/c0Sbjy
Basically, it's known that early galaxies and their evolution (including galaxies such as our own) were fueled by gas surrounding them, but the gas is so faint it's difficult to study, but that may now change.
"Astronomers measure universe expansion, get hints of 'new physics'"
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-cosmic-len...nsion.html
Possibly a huge discovery, but a lot of work needs to be done to really understand this, but the universe may be expanding much faster than we thought, which opens up the possibility of new physics we know nothing about at this point.
Cosmology always makes my head hurt, so won't expand on this too much!