🌙 Lunar regolith holds time itself: minerals from the Moon's molten past, glass spherules from impacts, and footprints preserved for millions of years.

🔬 Apollo astronauts said it smelled like gunpowder.

✨ This dust preserves over 4 billion years of bombardment that Earth's active surface erased.

✍️ Explore the regolith: https://TPC8.short.gy/5jaNBYHn

🌌 Where cosmic violence writes history in dust finer than flour.

#LunarRegolith #MoonDust #Apollo #SpaceScience #Astronomy #Moon #CosmicHistory #TPC8

Why we might finally be about to see the #FirstStars in the #universe

The first generation of stars changed the course of #CosmicHistory. Now, thanks to the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope, we have a real chance of spotting them
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335021-300-why-we-might-finally-be-about-to-see-the-first-stars-in-the-universe/

#Scientists reveal first data from #Euclidtelescope, offering snapshot of #cosmichistory

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-reveal-euclid-telescope-snapshot.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Because of their size and abundance, supermassive #blackholes must have formed early in #cosmichistory. But how early is still an unanswered question. It's a focus of a recent study on the arXiv preprint server.

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-webb-dozens-young-quasars-billion.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

A new study suggests that advanced civilizations may have existed in the distant past, but left no trace of their existence. The study, which uses a mathematical model of cultural evolution, shows that the probability of detecting an ancient civilization is very low, even if they were widespread and long-lasting. The study challenges the assumption that we are the first or only intelligent species in the universe. #AncientCivilizations #CulturalEvolution #CosmicHistory

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-advanced-civilizations.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

#Supermassiveblackholes (#SMBHs)—black holes with masses exceeding a million times that of the #sun—are known to prevail in the #universe today. However, it is not clear yet when, where, and how they formed during the 13.8 billion years of #cosmichistory.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-supermassive-black-holes-early-universe.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter