Read article 'Gamma-ray facility inaugurated in Namibia'
The first telescope of the high-energy stereoscopic system (HESS), named in honour of Victor Hess, the discoverer of cosmic radiation, was officially inaugurated in Namibia in September.
Read article 'Happy 40th birthday to ESO'
This autumn, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary. As current ESO director Catherine Cesarsky looks back fondly on the last four decades, she remembers “one fu...
Read article 'VLT to help map the universe'
Attempting to measure the evolution of the universe requires a huge sample of objects. Observations of millions of galaxies, looking further and further back in time, are needed to make an enormous 3D...
Read article 'INTEGRAL prepares for lift-off'
The launch of the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is scheduled for 17 October.
Read article 'PAMELA set to take particle physics into orbit'
The PAMELA experiment, scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome next year, is set to provide a better understanding of the antimatter component of cosmic rays. Mark Pearce reports.
Read article 'Modern Cosmology'
Juan Garcia-Bellido reviews in 2002 Modern Cosmology.
Read article 'Meeting heralds global GW detector network'
As the curtain is being raised on today's generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the individual project teams met to consider future detectors and the goal of running the global ensemble of ...
Read article 'VLT discovers early galactic cluster'
How the first groups of galaxies formed is one of the biggest mysteries in modern cosmology. Now another piece of the puzzle has been identified by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with the di...
Read article 'New study takes a dim view of quasars'
Some of the universe’s most luminous objects might not be as bright as they seem. A recent study suggests that around a third of high-redshift quasars may have their emission magnified by a fact...
Read article 'Cosmic-ray apparatus images Moon’s shadow'
A dedicated cosmic-ray experiment making use of the muon identification system of CERN's L3 experiment collected cosmic ray muons between April 1999 until L3 finished taking data in 2000.
