Read article 'Italian astronomy enters new era'
Astronomers in Italy will soon have a new coordinating body the National Institute of Astrophysics to regroup the 12 national observatories and strengthen ties with university astronomy ...
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Galileo telescope Galileo, the new 3.5 m Italian national telescope, will soon be open to astronomers. Situated on the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands at an altitude of 2400 m...
Read article 'Latest news from the early universe'
This month the first elements of the Very Small Array will be installed on Mount Teide in Tenerife. This is one of a number of new projects studying the cosmic microwave background.
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New study of distant quasars Subaru, Japan’s new 8.3 m telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (CERN Courier March), is being used for a new study of gravitationally lensed quasars. A luminosity of mor...
Read article 'The Sun: a brilliant past and an even brighter future'
The Sun may be the centre of our world, but it is not a typical star. At a special meeting, arranged by l'Observatoire de Paris at the Moët et Chandon manor at Epernay for the total solar eclipse of ...
Read article 'Cosmology not constant'
A simulation of the evolution of the universe suggests that it is expanding at an accelerating rate. This is more evidence for the existence of Einstein’s cosmological constant a kind of ...
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Millennium ‘delayed’ by space mission to Saturn Hold the champagne! Millennium celebrations throughout the world will be delayed. The culprit is the Cassini-Huygens space mission, which fl...
Read article 'Looking at cosmic rays with accelerator detectors'
Large detectors constructed at accelerator labs can also be used in parallel for cosmic-ray studies. Effects measured in distant detectors could be correlated to provide a broader view of particles fr...
Read article 'Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics'
The physics of neutron stars of which there are estimated to be about one billion in the Milky Way alone is covered, along with Strange quark matter when additional quarks come into play beyo...
Read article 'Chandra blasts off'
An X-ray equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray observatory, was launched on 23 July. Astronomers look forward to a new view of the violent universe with the highest-quality image...
