1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://test.news.harvard.edu/gazetteharvardgazettehttps://test.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/harvardgazette/The fast-firing universe — Harvard Gazetterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="F90qNxTtiO"><a href="https://test.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/04/the-fast-firing-universe/">The fast-firing universe</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://test.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/04/the-fast-firing-universe/embed/#?secret=F90qNxTtiO" width="600" height="338" title="“The fast-firing universe” — Harvard Gazette" data-secret="F90qNxTtiO" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://test.news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/nobel_605.jpg605403Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Brian Schmidt returns to Harvard this week to deliver the Morris Loeb and David M. Lee Lectures in Physics. Schmidt will discuss his discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, as well as the SkyMapper survey of the southern skies and the first stars that emerged after the universe’s dark ages.