«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar
in Observational Cosmology.
Measuring the equation of state of dark energy is one of the biggest efforts
in observational cosmology today.
Not exact matches
Since you mentioned it, I'm glad to point that the Big Bang is just a way to dodge the facts and logic conclusions made by Edwin Hubble
in his
Observational Approach to
Cosmology, pointing that Earth was
in a privileged position,
in the center of universe, which obviously has to be done for a purpose, by whoever is responsible for the Creation.
Unless you've been living under a particularly thick and insulating rock you'll know that
in recent months the world of experimental
cosmology (what would have previously been called
observational cosmology, or just plain old astronomy) has been on tenterhooks waiting to see -LSB-...]
This is a unique study that brings together our expertise and that of world leaders
in a variety of fields including
observational astronomy,
cosmology, experimental atomic physics and high energy theoretical physics.
I was presenting a paper on the future of
observational cosmology at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths and talking about the need to develop new and larger facilities to make significant advances
in some of the fundamental questions related to the formation and evolution of structure.
Most active work
in cosmology is done within the big bang framework because of its continuing success
in meeting these criteria, as
observational data become more and more accurate.
The CMB carries a frozen imprint of the density fluctuations
in the early Universe, the study of which, by the
observational cosmology community, is intense and sustained.