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Cosmic censorship

Nature volume 415, pages 374–375 (2002)Cite this article

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.

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