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Infrared reveals early universe Observations using the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) show that the first galaxies to form were far brighter than astronomers thought. The results were presented at a...
Read article 'Cosmic mystery'
A recent paper by Glennys Farrar of Rutgers and Peter Biermann of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn suggests interesting possibilities for the orbits of cosmic particles.
Read article 'Marsters of science'
Two recent talks at CERN focused on the problems of a voyage to Mars, where novel propulsion techniques are called for to overcome the logistical problems of otherwise having to construct huge space ...
Read article 'New eye on the
sky'
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the satellite in April 2001 and use it to study hard X-ray and gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV. A full-scale structural and therm...
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Moon sheds light on Sun Moondust contains traces of rare solar gases, krypton and xenon. This discovery, made by researchers at ETH Zurich, promises a unique archive of the life of the Sun. Buffeted b...
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Galactic downsizing The Milky Way is smaller and slower than astronomers once thought. A group at Southampton, UK, has measured the motions of stars near the Sun and their findings suggest it is 5000 ...
Read article 'SOHO back on track'
SOHO, a NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) collaboration, span out of control on 25 June leaving its solar panels almost edge-on to the Sun and unable to generate power. Since then the panels’ pos...
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VLT'
The European Southern Observatory’s VLT at Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert should be complete in 2005. Its four 8.2 m telescopes and three 1.8 m telescopes will make up the most sens...
Read article 'Cosmology comes of age'
The easy part is over experimental cosmology has now reached adulthood. That was the message that emerged from a workshop on cosmology and particle physics held at CERN this summer.
Read article 'How Borexino will stare at the Sun'
A new ultra-sensitive experiment to detect solar neutrinos is being built underground in Italy
