Cosmology

Pillar of dust and gas in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Pillar of dust and gas in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

Cosmology is the scientific study of the universe as a whole—its origin, structure, evolution, and eventual fate. It combines physics, astronomy, and mathematics to understand the large-scale properties of the universe, including galaxies, stars, planets, dark matter, dark energy, and the laws that govern them.

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