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Big Bang Revolutionaries
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The True Fathers of the Big Bang 

The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Read More ›
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Photo: M92, by NASA, en:STScI, en:WikiSky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Big Bang Survives Two Tests

M92 is one of about 160 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy and is estimated to contain about 330,000 stars. Read More ›
Cartwheel Galaxy
Photo: Cartwheel Galaxy, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›
A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra, optical data from Hubble, and infrared data from Spitzer.
A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Chandra has repeatedly observed the Crab since the telescope was launched into space in 1999. The Crab Nebula is powered by a quickly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star called a pulsar, which was formed when a massive star ran out of its nuclear fuel and collapsed. The combination of rapid rotation and a strong magnetic field in the Crab generates an intense electromagnetic field that creates jets of matter and anti-matter moving away from both the north and south poles of the pulsar, and an intense wind flowing out in the equatorial direction.

Recommended Reading: A Handbook of the Big Bang

Perhaps the publisher, Cambridge University Press, thought the title might help sales with a younger, hipper generation. Read More ›
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Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance. Read More ›
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ID’s Top Six — The Origin of the Universe

In 1927, Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître theorized that the universe began with a single explosion from a densely compacted state. Read More ›

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