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Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth
November 11, 2010 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is ... > full story -
Atoms-for-Peace: A Galactic Collision in Action
November 10, 2010 European Southern Observatory astronomers have produced a spectacular new image of the famous Atoms-for-Peace galaxy. This galactic pile-up, formed by the collision of two galaxies, provides an ... > full story -
CERN Completes Transition to Lead-Ion Running at the Large Hadron Collider
November 9, 2010 Four days is all it took for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC. After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on ... > full story -
Large Hadron Collider Throws Lead
November 4, 2010 The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, enters a new phase of operations Nov. 4. Scientists will stop running streams of protons ... > full story -
Close-Up of Hidden Galaxies With New Cosmic Zoom Lenses
November 8, 2010 Astronomers have discovered a new way of locating a natural phenomenon that acts like a zoom lens and allows astronomers to peer at galaxies in the distant and early Universe. These results are from ... > full story -
The Large Hadron Collider Enters a New Phase
November 4, 2010 Proton running for 2010 in the LHC at CERN came to a successful conclusion on November 4. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the machine and ... > full story -
New Way to Peer at Distant Galaxies
November 4, 2010 Astronomers have discovered a new way of finding cosmic zoom lenses, which allows astronomers to peer at galaxies in the distant ... > full story -
What Will Webb See? Supercomputer Models Yield Sneak Previews
November 3, 2010 As scientists and engineers work to make NASA's James Webb Space Telescope a reality, they find themselves wondering what new sights the largest space-based observatory ever constructed will reveal. ... > full story -
Fourth Flavor of Neutrino? Physics Experiment Suggests Existence of New Elementary Particle
November 2, 2010 The results of a high-profile Fermilab physics experiment appear to confirm strange 20-year-old findings that poke holes in the standard model, suggesting the existence of a new elementary particle: ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Evidence of 'Cosmic Climate Change'
November 2, 2010 A team of astronomers has found evidence that the universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. They measured the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies, and ... > full story
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