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Earth is not the safe center of the story. It's a fragile spacecraft with oceans, weather, a molten engine, and a magnetic shield — racing through a crowded, dangerous, beautiful system at 67,000 mph.
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There should be thousands of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The math says so. We've found nothing. Robin Hanson called it the Great Filter — a wall almost nothing gets past.
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In 1965, two engineers heard a hiss they couldn't explain. It was the oldest light in the universe — and the tiny ripples in it became every galaxy, star, and planet that exists.
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The universe has a hidden layer broadcasting in radio waves. Dead stars pulse like lighthouses, the Milky Way glows with synchrotron radiation, and the oldest signal in existence hums in every direction.
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Webb found galaxies in the early universe that shouldn't exist yet. Here's what the 'too many too early' problem means for cosmology.