Cosmic Expansion

Cosmic Expansion

An image of El Gordo, a massive galaxy cluster captured by Hubble
The planet, the Solar System, and the galaxy aren't expanding. But the whole Universe is. So where does the dividing line begin?
It's the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it's still not the very beginning of everything.
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When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn't know. Here's how far we've come.
A crane lifts a large metal structure onto a white building at a construction site in a mountainous, arid area under clear blue sky.
The relic signal that first proved the Big Bang has been known and analyzed for 60 years. Join us at the frontiers of modern cosmology!