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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They came to the conclusion after a five-year-long survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time.
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If you want to connect the dots, you need samples of galaxies that span very broad ranges" of cosmic time, he says.
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Individual voids may have a blob-like asymmetry, with certain parts expanding faster than others, but combine enough voids and you can generate a statistical average, a "standard sphere." This generic void expands over cosmic time in a predictable way.
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Another result is that a gradual decrease in the AGN fraction is seen with cosmic time since the Big Bang.
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"The universe was remarkably consistent [in making stars] for a fairly large amount of cosmic time."
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The Hubble constant in today's universe, and its changes through cosmic time, are the keys to knowing the universe's nature, history, and fate.
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These instruments provide information on the number, brightness, colors, shapes, and star formation rates of galaxies over a huge span of cosmic time, beginning a few billion years after the Big Bang and continuing to the present.
After Hubble: the Next Generation: probing the final frontier
The high-speed jet is probably episodic and will live for only a few centuries, a blink of the eye on a cosmic time scale.
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Peering far back in cosmic time, the Hubble Space Telescope has spied a group of 18 diminutive youngsters that may represent the building blocks of a giant galaxy like the Milky Way.
Images hint at seeds of a giant galaxy
Unlike previous studies, which examined young stellar populations in galaxies at various epochs in cosmic time, Heavens's team studied present-day stellar populations in 96,545 nearby galaxies imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
The peak of cosmic starbirth: star formation reached its zenith more recently than astronomers thought

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