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...million years after the Big Bang. Finally, the universe is made of three things in the following proportions: 4% ordinary atoms; 23% "dark matter," whose nature is still unknown; and 73% "dark energy," the equally mysterious force whose antigravity effect is speeding up the cosmic expansion. "This," says astrophysicist John Bahcall, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., "is a rite of passage for cosmology, from speculation to precision science...
...president, you’re really the hit person for astronomy,” said Andrea K. Dupree, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) who served as president of the AAS from 1996 to 1998. “You have a chance to speak for the profession and to have influence on where the profession goes...
...Guillermo Torres, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Center who worked on the OGLE, or Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, said the method was less complicated than previous attempts to find planets...
Speakers from each class included astrophysicist Edward Kolb, African novelist Chinua Achebe and reporter Daniel Schorr...
...buzz is 55 Cancri, about the size and age of our sun, located just 41 light-years away. This is not the first time a planet has been seen orbiting the star. In 1996 Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and astrophysicist Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington spotted a different Jupiter-size world circling 55 Cancri in a close-up orbit just 10 million miles from the solar fires--closer than little Mercury orbits our own sun. All told, astronomers have found about 90 big planets circling many other stars, either...