They show the cosmos when it was just 380,000 years old — much like seeing baby pictures of our now middle-aged universe. At that time, our universe emitted the cosmic microwave background as it ...

ACT COLLABORATION; ESA/PLANCK COLLABORATION It’s hard to picture the universe in its infancy. The middle-aged cosmos now stretches across 93 billion light-years, holding up to two trillion ...

And while 388,000 years may seem like an indescribably long time to humans, the universe is currently around 13.8 billion years old—meaning these photos are equivalent to "hours-old baby ...

Here’s how it works. New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT ...