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QUICK FACTS Date: Night of Oct. 5, 1923 Where: Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California Who: Edwin Hubble On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, …

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test that shows it is ready to detect the “ashes” left over from a unique primordial soup that filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang. The sPHENIX detector is the latest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ring accelerator located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The …