Read article 'Particle Astrophysics'
This is a revised and updated edition, in paperback, of a book that, when it first appeared a few years ago (Bookshelf, Summer 1998), merited the comment "more than just a graduate level textbook......
Read article 'NASA to work with Stanford for major astrophysics project'
In a move that underlines the growing requirement for sophisticated hardware for precision physics experiments in space, NASA has announced an award to Stanford University for the development of the...
Read article 'XMM Newton reveals first images'
The first images have been captured using the new X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) space telescope, now called the Newton observatory. The telescope was successfully launched last December (CERN CourierJanuar...
Read article 'Workshop stresses potential of space technology'
April sees a joint workshop on fundamental physics in space held at CERN and organized jointly by CERN and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Read article 'Pollution threatens observations'
Two months from now the International Telecommunications Union will hold its World Radio Conference in Turkey. Radio astronomers are hoping for new regulations to curb emission from satellites that ar...
Read article 'Boomerang results suggest ‘flat’ universe'
New results from a test flight of the Boomerang balloon experiment imply that there is just enough matter to stop the expansion of the universe, but not to reverse it.
Read article 'What’s new in particles and cosmology?'
The 1999 DESY Theory Workshop concentrated on the growing symbiosis between particle physics (particularly neutrinos) and cosmology.
Read article 'A brief history of the universe'
During 1998-9, Peter Kalmus of London's Queen Mary and Westfield College lectured on "Particles and the universe" in 43 UK locations to 10 000 high-school students.Readers of CERN Courier will be ...
Read article 'The Hubble century'
The name of Hubble will be eternally linked with 20th-century astronomy. At the beginning of the 20th century astronomers knew of planets and stars, and anything else was called a nebula (derived from...
Read article 'A masing new ruler'
Observations of astronomical water masers have provided us with a new measure of distance in space. Maser emission was detected by a team using the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), from material ro...
