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Big Bang Discovery Helps Explain Origins of Universe

This week big news hit the science frontier as a 30-year-old theory on the Big Bang got a new breakthrough.

From CNN:

 There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene. But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be.

If the discovery holds up to scrutiny, it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Read more about the news on “inflation theory” here, and take a look inside the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, where major discoveries are found on this – the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope.