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Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

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Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.