The Insanely Awesome Hunt for Dark Matter
Updated: 2009-09-30 08:00:00
The US Department of Energy has provided Fermilab with $9 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a long-baseline neutrino project. The laboratory is currently spending the funds on preliminary design.
"This is an opportunity to send money into the technical community outside the laboratory," said Regina Rameika, a Fermilab scientist who is coordinating the design efforts.
A galaxy cluster about 840 million light years from Earth.
Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources.
This composite image, combining data from Chandra and Spitzer shows the molecular cloud Cepheus B, located in our Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth.