CERN brings particle physics to the Frankfurt Book Fair Geneva and Frankfurt, 10 October 2012. CERN is today showcasing its science at the Frankfurt Book Fair. As well as a range of books looking at the science of CERN and the LHC, the Laboratory will unveil a new interactive LHC time tunnel display an...
Black hole caught grabbing a starry treat On 28 March, NASA's Swift telescope detected several bright bursts of X-rays coming from a patch of the sky where no X-rays had been detected before. Now two teams, one led by David Burrows of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and the other by A...
YBJ Observatory was founded in 1990. It has hosted the Tibet ASγ Experiment (Sino-Japanese Cooperation) ever since. After 6 years’ preparation, the ARGO -YBJ Project (Sino-Italian Cooperation) started its detector installation in 2000. Both of them aim at the research of the origin of hig...
The Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) is a treaty prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. It was developed both to slow the arms race (nuclear testing was, at the time, necessary for continued nuclear weapon advancements), and to stop the excessive release of nuclear...
Nuclear physicist Peter T. Demos dies at 94 Peter T. Demos, a nuclear physicist who guided MIT's Bates Linear Accelerator from a groundbreaking idea in 1961 to a globally renowned center for the study of nuclear structure and reactions, died of coronary artery disease on Sept. 18. A longtime reside...
Title: IRAS 19520+2759: a 10^5 Lsun massive young stellar object driving a collimated outflow Authors: Aina Palau, Carmen Sánchez Contreras, Raghvendra Sahai, Alvaro Sánchez-Monge, J. Ricardo Rizzo The theory of massive star formation currently suffers from a scarce observational base of ma...
Maxima of the long period variable T Sagittarii on the 10th September, 2011 Magnitude range: 7.1- 12.9 V Period: 394.7 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 19 16 14.43881 | Dec -16 58 17.0642
Will Pulsar Networks Guide Space Missions Through Milky Way? The European Space Agency's Ariadna initiative is studying a totally awesome navigation system that creams the one you'll find in your new Elite Cobra MkIII: they are examining the feasibility of navigation relying on millisecond pul...
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