Read article 'Did Hubble find the most distant galaxy?'
The Hubble Space Telescope has been pushed to its limits to find a galaxy candidate at a record distance of 13.2 thousand million light-years. The tiny, dim object observed by Hubble could be a compac...
Read article 'Fermi sees giant bubbles in the Milky Way'
The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has detected high-energy emission from two giant lobes on both sides of the plane of the Galaxy. This unexpected finding suggests that the Milky Way was more active...
Read article 'Planck reveals a stellar first year'
The first results from Planck are already providing new insights into astrophysics.
Read article 'The origin of cosmic rays'
Fine structure in the energy spectrum provides new clues.
Read article 'Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time'
Jesse Karjalainen reviews in 2010 Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time.
Read article 'Massive neutron star can’t be exotic matter'
The most precise determination yet of the mass of a heavy neutron star in a binary system has important implications on its matter content. With a mass twice that of the Sun, the millisecond-pulsar J1...
Read article 'Exoplanet hunters find rich planetary systems'
The time when isolated extrasolar planets were discovered is over, with the detection of two entire systems of six and possibly even seven planets orbiting nearby stars. These recent discoveries by tw...
Read article 'TRIUMF lays on a feast of nuclear physics'
The INPC 2010 meeting reveals a healthy and dynamic research field.
Read article 'Cosmic accelerators may be at work in the Milky Way'
Measurements by the Pierre Auger Observatory may provide evidence of natural nuclear accelerators at work in the local galaxy, the Milky Way.
Read article 'Colliding galaxies formed giant black holes'
Like Ben Johnson’s explosive jump out of the starting blocks for 100 m, the growth of supermassive black holes had a “jump start” in the early universe. What triggered this fast...
