NASA's "ET Eyes" - Piercing the Mysteries of the Universe (A Weekend Feature)
Updated: 2010-01-31 09:00:00
The possibility that dark matter could be made of strongly interacting particles has been ruled out by neutrino observations at the IceCube detector, according to physicists Ivone Albuquerque of Fermilab and Universidade de São Paulo and Carlos Pérez de los Heros of Uppsala University.
Scientists in the PHENIX collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory have enlisted the expertise of a group of technicians at Fermilab’s SiDet facility in upgrading their particle detector, originally constructed in 2000.
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy.
As the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday shook whole blocks of Port-au-Prince into dust, physicists hundreds of miles away in Illinois knew something terrible was occurring, based on the movements of massive magnets in the Tevatron Collider.
Work toward the world’s most intense long-distance neutrino beam received key government approval last week, invigorating US and global collaborators.
The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment passed the first Department of Energy approval stage Friday, Jan. 8, when it received Critical Decision-0. This designation cements the DOE’s support for the need and physics goals of the experiment. [...]
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
An elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster that contains an ultraluminous X-ray source.
This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.