Astronomy

Europe wants to build a telescope to look back at the origins of the universe. The mile-long structure might come to Belgium. Archisman Ghosh of Ghent University's Faculty of Sciences is eagerly looking forward to it.

You can't literally put them under a microscope, but advanced computer simulations help Maarten Baes study galaxies. A good thing too, because the study of galaxies is a relatively new branch of astronomy and much is still to be discovered.