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cosmic time

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Noun1.cosmic time - the time covered by the physical formation and development of the universe
time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
sidereal time - measured by the diurnal motion of stars
solstice - either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
equinox - either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length
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For the problem of weighing quasars, seen at a much earlier period in the vast expanse of cosmic time, the astronomer's conclusion could have major implications.
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Professor Matt Griffin, from Cardiff University, Spire's principal investigator, said: "The results could reveal how stars like the Sun are forming in our own galaxy today, how the galaxies grew and evolved over cosmic time, and how planetary systems can develop from the dust and gas around young stars.
University peers deep into space by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
According to a report by Dennis Overbye, after 10 billion years of record-setting growth, the universe's expansion has slowed down: After bulking up rapidly in the first 10 billion years of cosmic time, clusters of galaxies, the cloudlike swarms that are the largest conglomerations of matter in the universe, have grown anemically or not at all during the last five billion years, like sullen teenagers who suddenly refuse to eat.
Report: Tough Eons Ahead As Universe's Development 'Arrested' by Matt Haber / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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