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Nobel Prize in Physics for two breakthroughs: Evidence for the Big Bang and a way to find exoplanets

  • Written by Robert T. Fisher, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Artist's rendering of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet and its host, a star slightly more massive than our sun. Image credit:ESO/NASA

Did the universe really begin with a Big Bang? And if so, is there evidence? Are there planets around other stars? Can they support life?

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who have provided deep...

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