Read article 'NUCLEON takes its place in space'
NUCLEON takes its place in space
On 13 January, less than three weeks after being launched into space, the NUCLEON satellite experiment was switched on to collect its first cosmic-ray events.
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Read article 'Planck reveals no evidence of new physics'
Planck reveals no evidence of new physics
The release of the full mission data of ESA’s Planck spacecraft is a milestone for cosmology. Despite the high quality of the data – including, for the first time, polarization observation...
Read article 'HESS sees a powerful trio in a nearby galaxy'
HESS sees a powerful trio in a nearby galaxy
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has discovered three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way about 170,000 li...
Read article 'Gamma-ray bursts are a real threat to life'
Gamma-ray bursts are a real threat to life
A new study confirms the potential hazard of nearby gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and quantifies the probability of an event on Earth and more generally in the Milky Way and other galaxies. The authors fin...
Read article 'Ultra-luminous X-ray source is ‘just’ a pulsar'
Ultra-luminous X-ray source is ‘just’ a pulsar
Until now, ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) were thought to be black holes, because their high luminosity implied a mass exceeding by far the maximal mass of a neutron star. The most luminous of th...
Read article 'Cosmic particles meet the LHC at ISVHECRI'
Cosmic particles meet the LHC at ISVHECRI
More than 120 physicists from across the world met at CERN to discuss questions related to hadron production in cosmic-ray interactions and at accelerator experiments.
Read article 'AMS finds evidence of new source of positrons in cosmic rays'
AMS finds evidence of new source of positrons in cosmic rays
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) has new results on energetic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons, based on analysis of the first 41 billion events.
Read article 'Planck confirms doubts on BICEP2 results'
Planck confirms doubts on BICEP2 results
The Planck collaboration has published an all-sky map of the polarized thermal emission of dust grains in the Milky Way. It shows that the field used by the experiment for Background Imaging of Cosmic...
Read article 'Borexino measures the Sun’s energy in real time'
Borexino measures the Sun’s energy in real time
The Borexino experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories has measured the energy of the Sun in real time, showing for the first time that the energy released today at its centre is exactly...
Read article 'INTEGRAL catches radioactivity of a supernova'
INTEGRAL catches radioactivity of a supernova
ESA’s INTEGRAL satellite has detected gamma-ray lines from the radioactive decay of nickel and cobalt in a nearby supernova of type Ia. This unprecedented result confirms that the intense l...
