Gravity bending starlight!
A solar eclipse confirms that Einstein's theory of gravity, not Newton's, correctly predicts the bending of starlight.
![Image of the 1919 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/1919_paper_220px.jpg)
Our expanding universe!
Hubble builds on his earlier discovery that the Milky Way Galaxy is but one of many galaxies in our Universe to find that the Universe is expanding.
![Image of the 1929 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/1929_paper_220px.jpg)
Einstein's death!
The debate rages between whether the Big Bang and Steady State correctly describes the origin of the universe.
![Image of the 1955 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/1955_paper_220px.jpg)
Light from the Big Bang!
Penzias and Wilson discover the Cosmic Microwave Background, the remnant radiation from the very early universe, which makes the case for the Big Bang Theory.
![Image of the 1965 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/1965_paper_220px.jpg)
The universe's baby picture!
The COBE mission measures fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background, which explain structure in our universe and confirm the role of inflation.
![Image of the 1993 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/1993_paper_220px.jpg)
Dark energy!
The supernova distance scale leads to the discovery of dark energy in 1997, a puzzling new component of our universe whose nature remains a mystery in 2006.
![Image of the 2006 Cosmic Times poster](online_edition/images/2006_paper_220px.jpg)
Meet the Cosmic Times Team