Einstein Is Relatively Right

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April 2019

Einstein Is Relatively Right

The Andromeda Galaxy and our native Milky Way will collide. Scientists have now decided on a date- in four billion years. Although, of course, there is no direct evidence that this will ever occur. But now astronomers are observing a similar process in the constellation Hercules. There, the two galaxies have already come so close to each other that their gravitational fields started breaking the boundaries and changing the traditional location of the stars.

This data was obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been surfing the Universe for almost thirty years. The mission, which resulted in the discovery of thousands of objects previously unknown to us, is nearing its end. So NASA shifted its focus to a new astronomical device, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). This space observatory should help to reveal many secrets of the cosmos dark matter, the acceleration energy of stars, and the conditions for the emergence of various forms of life. Americans will send the WFIRST one and a half million kilometers from Earth to observe both giant clusters of galaxies and baby planets smaller than the moon. Its technical capabilities exceed the Hubble by a hundred times, and the budget expenditures for the project are estimated at $3.2 billion. In addition to studying the mysterious cosmic phenomena, NASA hopes to significantly replenish the catalog of supernovae and exoplanets, test Einstein’s general theory of relativity and give people the clearest picture of the Universe. An article about this will be published in the next issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the main research publication in the field of astronomy.

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