• Astronomers use moon in effort to corral elusive cosmic particles

    Updated: 2010-11-30 21:31:56
    Science Blog Scince Blog : Science news straight from the source About Our Bloggers You gotta shop somewhere Subscribe by Email Subscribe to RSS Astronomers use moon in effort to corral elusive cosmic particles November 30, 2010 Seeking to detect mysterious , ultra-high-energy neutrinos from distant regions of space , a team of astronomers used the Moon as part of an innovative telescope system for the search . Their work gave new insight on the possible origin of the elusive subatomic particles and points the way to opening a new view of the Universe in the . future The team used special-purpose electronic equipment brought to the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array VLA radio telescope , and took advantage of new , more-sensitive radio receivers installed as part of the

  • Rare Science Books up for Auction Next Week

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:16:42
    Are you having difficulty figuring out what to buy that special someone? Do you have $600,000 to $800,000 on hand? Well, then you can bid on a first edition of Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger), which is just one lot in next week’s auction “Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte” at Christie’s in New [...]

  • Stars on the Move

    Updated: 2010-11-05 14:37:42
    Two thousand years ago Ptolemy listed Omega Centauri in his catalogue of stars. In 1677, Edmund Halley (of comet fame) named it a nebula. But we now know that Omega Centauri is actually a globular cluster, a swarm of almost 10 million stars that all orbit around a common point. (That point may be an [...]

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