August 2009:News & Notes.
- The LRO Photographs the Apollo landing sites: Fans of this space may have noticed the racy lunar pics we ran a week back as part of our From Earth to the Moon review. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
View Article25.10.09: In Search of a Mirror Universe.
There is one enduring mystery in cosmology that just won’t budge; namely, just what happened to all that pesky anti-matter that was presumably created during the Big Bang? Was it annihilated, only to...
View Article30.03.10- Fermi: On the Hunt for Dark Matter.
One of the major astrophysical mysteries of our time may be on the verge of being solved. Namely, where is 85% of our universe? Thats the amount that is predicted to be composed of enigmatic dark...
View Article23.05.10-Are Black Holes the Key to Dark Matter?
An artist’s conception of a gas torus surrounding a super-massive black hole. (Credit: V.Beckmann/NASA). For the past few decades, astronomers have been hot on the trail of the missing part of our...
View Article29.05.10: CERN Moves into New Sub-Atomic Territory.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is starting to show its stuff. Earlier this year, scientists at the CERN institute on the Swiss-French border powered LHC into uncharted territory, conducting...
View Article19.04.11: AMS-02: A Preview.
AMS-02…Good to Go! (Credit: NASA.gov). A very special payload will be aboard the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, one that had a long hard road to launch. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)...
View ArticleReview: The Cosmic Cocktail by Katherine Freese
A stellar recipe! Its the hottest topic in modern astrophysics. What exactly is dark matter and dark energy? It is kind of amazing to think that astrophysicists do not yet completely understand just...
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