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“135억년 전 암흑 속에 무슨 일이…우주 최초의 별 보게 될 것” 최준호 기자 중앙선데이 2021.05.01 00:21 734호 26면 지면보기 [첨단의 끝을 찾아서] 박병곤 대형망원경 사업단장 박병곤 천문연구원 대형망원경 사업단장이 칠레 안데스산맥 라스 캄파나스에 설치될 거대마젤란망원경 이미지 앞에 섰다. 김성태 객원기자 혼돈의 시대다. 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증 팬데믹으로 전세계가 신음하고 있지만, 한편으론 지구 밖 화성까지 날아간 우주탐사선이 현지에서 헬기까지 띄우고 있다. 과학기술 발전 속도만큼이나 인류를 둘러싼 사회ㆍ환경의 변화도 현기증을 느낄 정도다. 현재가 혼란스러울수록 미래가 궁금하다. 대한민국은, 인류는 어디로 향해 가고 있을까. 사실, 답은 인류의 손에 있다. 미래는 예측하는 게 아니..

The cosmic chasm Physics as we know it is elegant and exquisitely accurate. It tells almost nothing about the deepest riddles of the Universe Pedro G Ferreira AEON 26 March 2021 Pedro G Ferreira is professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The State of the Universe: A Primer in Modern Cosmology (2006) and The Perfect Theory (2014). One afternoon in February 2016,..

Life and Fate Avi Loeb Inference In Until the End of Time, Brian Greene describes the unavoidable cosmic fate awaiting us given the laws of physics that govern nature. In his review, David Berlinski argues that our free will is not governed by unavoidable forecasts. Are we merely passengers on a train driven by the laws of nature toward a destination that we cannot avoid? Or is there some way we..

Astrobiology The search for ET hots up If life exists beyond Earth, science may find it soon Briefing The Economisgt Feb 13th 2021 TEEGARDEN’S STAR is a tiny, dim object in the zodiacal constellation of Aries. It has a tenth of the sun’s mass and emits most of its light in the infrared part of the spectrum. That makes it too faint to see with the naked eye, even though it is only 12 light-years ..

I’m a Little Worried About Venus The planet could be home to life. What happens to it now? By Lucianne Walkowicz SLATE Sept 15, 2020 "The planet Venus appears cloudy and tan on a black background" loading="lazy" /> Do Venus’ thick clouds contain a whiff of life? NASA/JPL-Caltech On Monday morning, the world learned of an exciting discovery: a whiff of phosphine, one of the universe’s most odi..

궤도 밖의 과학 내일도 뜬다는 태양의 46억년 비밀그럼에도 태양은 언제나 우리의 희망 과학 커뮤니케이터 궤도 nasabolt@gmail.com주간동아2020-01-08 09:53:50 2020년 1222 호 내일도 뜬다는 태양의 46억년 비밀기사공유 카카오스토리구글플러스메일 파커 태양탐사선. [사진제공=NASA] 인류에게 가장 ..

Fate of the Universe Are we part of a dying reality or a blip in eternity? The value of the Hubble Constant could tell us which terror awaits Corey S Powell AEON, Dec. 2019 Corey S Powell is a science editor and journalist. He has been editor at Discover, Scientific American and Aeon. He is the author of God in the Equation (2003), and co-authored Undeniable (2014), Unstoppabl..

Hubble captures portrait of unique spiral galaxy By Brooks HaysUPI, Nov. 15, 2019 / 4:02 PM The spiral galaxy NGC 772 is unusual in that is missing a central feature called a bar, a pipeline of gas and dust that is thought to fuel stellar formation in the galactic centers of the Milky Way and other similar galaxies. Photo by ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Seth et al. Nov. 15 (UPI) -- N..

１３５億年前誕生の銀河か＝「年老いた」姿を観測－東大など 時事ドットコムニュース 2019年09月10日20時13分 宇宙誕生から３億年後に形成されたとみられる銀河（写真左）と１０億年後の年老いた銀河の想像図（国立天文台提供） 　東京大宇宙線研究所などの研究チームは１０日、..

New model explains appearance of supermassive black holes in early universeBy Brooks Hays June 28, 2019 / 3:35 PM New research suggests supermassive black holes got really big, really fast in the early universe. Photo by University of Western Ontario June 28 (UPI) -- Scientists have developed a new model for the formation and growth of supermassive black holes that could expla..