Somewhere in the Universe

17/07/2019

Every seat in the Historic Homestake Opera House was filled when the lights dimmed for the Neutrino Day finale. Out of the quiet, the symphony’s music slowly built, and the performance began with a seemingly simple question, voiced by a child. “What are the Northern Lights?” The question prope...

12/07/2019

Princeton researchers have built an electronic array on a microchip that simulates particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane, a geometric surface in which space curves away from itself at every point.

29/04/2019

He taught for nearly 20 years , helped create America’s school of theoretical physics, postulated the existence of black holes, led the project to build the atomic bomb and was branded a security risk for opposing the hydrogen bomb. Robert Oppenheimer, born in 1904.

29/04/2019

Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six new binary black hole mergers that exceed the detection thresholds defined by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC), the group responsible for the first direct observation of gravitational wave...

28/04/2019

It took astronomers a century to make the first-ever gravitational wave detection, confirming a core prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. But this month, the floodgates have

26/04/2019

It's 24hrs since and detected a candidate binary merger. An exciting (and sleepless) night for many astronomers across the globe as they search for signs of the merger's aftermath. https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3_archive.html …

26/04/2019

First binary neutron star merger of O3!

Day 25 of and and have another candidate event: at 08:18:26 UTC If the event is confirmed then it's probably a pair of merging! More info at https://gracedb.ligo.org/latest/

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17/02/2016

The planetary nebula ESO 378-1

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This is the best view of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

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ESO