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Cosmic censorship

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Cosmologists believe the Universe will expand forever, but our powers to observe it will not accelerate at the same rate. What does this mean for the future of astronomy?

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Figure 1: Here today, gone tomorrow: galaxies visible to the Hubble Space Telescope.

ROBERT WILLIAMS/HUBBLE DEEP FIELD TEAM/NASA

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104-6396, Pennsylvania, USA

    Max Tegmark

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Tegmark, M. Cosmic censorship. Nature 415, 374–375 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415374a

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