Expansion

‘Striking’ Expansion of Two Antarctic Flowering Plants Is a Climate Warning

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Flowering plants in the Antarctic region are rapidly expanding, scientists say, indicating the continuing effects of climate change on the continent. The findings suggest we may have reached a tipping point in this fragile, remote ecosystem.   A new study of this plant expansion looked at the two flowering plants native to Antarctica, Deschampsia antarctica … Read more

A Cosmic Water Cloud Shadow Has Revealed The Temperature of The Early Universe

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Sometimes astronomers and astrophysicists are working at such gigantic, mind-bending scales – in terms of both distance and time – that you can’t help but be awestruck at the new discoveries they keep coming out with.   Case in point: a temperature check of the Universe in its youngest phase, just 880 million years after … Read more

Expansion of the universe: Conflicting measurements are becoming a serious problem

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The Hubble constant describes how fast the universe is expanding, but our measurements won’t line up, which may mean our standard model of the universe is wrong Space 20 January 2022 By Leah Crane Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of galaxies looked at in the study ESA The expansion of the universe is … Read more