"Our theories of dark matter say that it should form a giant intricate cosmic web and that's exactly what we see in this data, a cosmic web that's housing the galaxies that we can see, " Dr Heymans told BBC News.
In recent years, several space objects have taken astronomers by surprise, serving as a reminder that our cosmic neighbourhood remains a busy place.
This is a cosmic joke told by Franz Kafka, a wisecrack projected into a void.
They've dubbed it a cosmic ghost, and hope to get a better look at it next year when they can get some telescope time on the Hubble Space Telescope.
On a cosmic scale, the odd meteorite shower is a fairly modest event.
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Formal religion, meanwhile, is supposed to have appeared only after agriculture produced such hierarchical social relations as required a cosmic backstory to keep them going and supplied a template for the power relationship between gods and mortals.
In 1931, his Letter to Nature introduced a Cosmic Egg hypothesis, the notion that the entire universe originated in a cold, super dense state and expanded outward.
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Here recently completed lives are examined and evaluated, in a formal proceeding something like a trial: if the defendant wins the case, he moves up the cosmic ladder to a higher form of consciousness.
Karma, a cosmic accounting system of checks and balances (the ultimate exercise, perhaps, in self-metrification).
The dawn of a new age has undoubtedly put many in a cosmic mood.
And it surely is not the cosmic shift to a consumption tax favored by others.
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That Kennan lived near a town called East Berlin is not a cosmic joke.
It launched a cosmic wave of pop culture that eventually brought us TV families on distant planets.
And we can surmise that bombardment by small cosmic particles over a long period might do similar damage.
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For Murray, the gold medal should represent a cosmic leap in how he is perceived in the game.
Part of their explanation is that the universe started with a cosmic explosion, known as the Big Bang.
To fans, the deal restores the cosmic order of a basketball universe disturbed when the original SuperSonics decamped.
Intangibles are an accounting contrivance that resembles a cosmic black hole--we know it exists but understand little of its inner workings.
She says this points to a central belief that there is a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil.
The independent lines of evidence pointing towards it appear compelling, whether it was caused by cosmic inflation or a clash of branes.
Its appearance was a cosmic accident, one that might never be repeated.
Cosmic rays from a supernova would have scorched the moon, leaving signs of damage in surface minerals that could be visible to microscopes.
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Dr. Freire and his colleagues put Einstein to the test in a cosmic laboratory 7, 000 light years from earth, where two exotic stars are circling each other.
Depending on the point of view, zombies may result from an act of God, the irresponsible use of science, an environmental disaster, a cosmic event and so forth.
We can turn swords into ploughshares on a cosmic scale.
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Building a human-sized wormhole, for example, would require harnessing vast amounts of peculiar quantum field energy and deploying gravitational stabilizing technology that would need the resources of a cosmic super-civilization.
Although the probe would carry no cameras in the classic sense, its onboard instruments would include a low-energy charged particle experiment, a magnetometer, a cosmic ray detector, and an energetic neutral atom detector.
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