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First Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge from 2008 to 2016 George Efstathiou joined Dr Brian Keating for a cosmological episode of the 'Into The Impossible' Podcast in which they look at cosmic acceleration, Hubble tension, Sigma-8 tension, inflation theory, BICEP2, Planck collaboration, and more. The...

Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge observed a very young galaxy in the early...

The two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers today announced. These galaxies join a small but growing population of galaxies from the first half...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately this talk has been cancelled. We hope to be able to re-schedule it for a future date. We are delighted to announce a special public talk by Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel on 1st May at 18:30 in the Hoyle Lecture Theatre at the Institute for Astronomy. He is visiting us from the Max Planck...