Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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Acronym for electrically neutral weakly interacting massive particles. These have not yet been observed in particle accelerators; if they do exist, they are important in cosmology because they would contribute to the missing mass.
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