Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument’s first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the ...
Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument’s first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the ...
Ancient cosmic light that has uniformly filled the universe since around 400,000 years after the Big Bang could act like a treasure map that guides scientists to the secrets of dark matter. The Cosmic ...
Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...
Image: The Dark Sector Lab at the South Pole houses BICEP2 and South Pole Telescope. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun: The theory of inflation holds that just a fraction of a second after the universe ...
Image: Equipment used to repair the South Pole Telescope is removed from the facility. Repairs to the telescope’s azimuth will allow the instrument to turn smoothly as it searches the universe for ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
On October 7, police escorted a wooden crate two lanes wide through the streets of the South Side, arriving at the new High Bay Research Building on East 56th Street and South Maryland Avenue. Inside ...
The cosmic microwave background—the universe's oldest light—has traversed vast distances before reaching us. During its extended journey, gravitational forces from massive cosmic structures caused its ...
Among the research managers at NASA, working towards the construction of the large telescope that will allow us to observe ...
At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the Antarctic ice. Its ...
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