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Galaxy clusters like Abell 2744 can act as a natural cosmic lens, magnifying light from more distant, background objects through gravity. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect light from the first stars in the universe if they are gravitationally lensed by such clusters. (astronomy, space exploration, galaxies)

How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?

Infinite space background with silhouette of telescope. This image elements furnished by NASA.

Telescopes: Seeing Stars

Planet Jupiter with its moon Io at left, photographed by the Cassini orbiter during the Cassini-Huygens mission, 2000. spacecraft

7 Important Dates in Jupiter History

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Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.

What Darwin Got Right (and Wrong) About Evolution

number zero, 0 balloon

Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?

General Pershing's troops moving into Mexico in 1917 during World War I.

Timeline of World War I

British troops in a trench on the Western front during World War I. One officer takes reports of the fighting over a field telephone while the officer on the left jots it down and issues new orders.

Life in the Trenches: A World War I Photo Gallery

The Great Depression Unemployed men queued outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone The storefront sign reads 'Free Soup

5 of the World’s Most Devastating Financial Crises

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What’s Inside the Great Pyramid?

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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Galileo

Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician

Guillaume Amontons

French physicist

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Polish-born Dutch physicist

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Fun Facts of Measurement & Math