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Cosmology is at a Crossroads, But New Instruments are Coming to Help

Thanks to Hubble, JWST, and the Planck mission, we're starting to see cracks in the current ideas in cosmology, expressed by the Hubble Tension, the Cosmic Shear Tension, and the role dark energy plays in the expansion of the Universe over time. Good news: powerful new instruments are already surveying the Universe and should measure any deviations from the widely held cosmological models. It's a fun time to be an astronomer.

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