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Researchers Suggest Higher Density of Particles in One Section of Saturn’s Rings

When the sun set on Saturn's rings in August 2009, scientists on NASA's Cassini mission were watching closely. It was the equinox -- one of two times in the Saturnian year when the sun illuminates the planet's enormous ring system edge-on. The event provided an extraordinary opportunity for the orbiting Cassini spacecraft to observe short-lived changes in the rings that reveal details about their nature.

3 Sep 2015

Perimeter Institute’s Webcast Lecture Series Topics Include Quantum Mechanics, Cosmology and Dark Matter

Leading researchers from around the globe – including two Nobel Laureates – will explore physics concepts from quantum to cosmos during the upcoming season of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series, beginning Oct. 7.

3 Sep 2015

The MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope at La Silla Observatory Captures Excellent Pictures of Prawn Nebula

Deeply immersed in this huge stellar nursery are three clusters of hot young stars -- only a few million years old -- which glow brightly in ultraviolet light. It is the light from these stars that causes the nebula's gas clouds to glow. The radiation strips electrons from atoms -- a process known as ionisation -- and when they recombine they release energy in the form of light. Each chemical element emits light in characteristic colours and the large clouds of hydrogen in the nebula are the cause of its rich red glow.

3 Sep 2015

ALICE Collaboration Obtains Precise Measurement of Properties of Light Atomic Nuclei and Anti-Nuclei

Our existence is still a great mystery in theoretical physics. Why did anti-matter disappear almost completely from our universe, whereas matter did not? Scientists are attempting to solve this mystery at the particle accelerator of the major European research institute at CERN.

3 Sep 2015

Geologists and Physicists Generate World’s First Global Map of Antineutrino Emissions

The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science. These particles are byproducts of nuclear reactions within stars (including our sun), supernovae, black holes and human-made nuclear reactors. They also result from radioactive decay processes deep within the Earth, where radioactive heat and the heat left over from the planet’s formation fuels plate tectonics, volcanoes and Earth’s magnetic field.

2 Sep 2015

Different Magnesium Compounds Could Be Abundant Inside Other Distant Planets

As astronomers continue finding new rocky planets around distant stars, high-pressure physicists are considering what the interiors of those planets might be like and how their chemistry could differ from that found on Earth. New work from a team including three Carnegie scientists demonstrates that different magnesium compounds could be abundant inside other planets as compared to Earth. Their work is published by Scientific Reports.

2 Sep 2015

Gravitational Microlensing Helps Discover Distant Gas Giant Exoplanet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitational microlensing.

2 Sep 2015

ATLAS and CMS Collaborations Present Combined Measurements of Higgs Properties

Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations present for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP 2015).

2 Sep 2015

Astronomers at Georgia State University to Debate Scientific Theories about Dark Matter

Astronomers at Georgia State University will debate leading scientific theories about dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries of the universe, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5 in Speakers Auditorium at Georgia State’s Student Center East, 55 Gilmer St.

1 Sep 2015

Powerful Aurora Discovered on Low-Mass Star

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth -- is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen. They found the aurora not from a planet, but from a low-mass star at the boundary between stars and brown dwarfs.

1 Sep 2015

Quantum Physics News

Researchers Suggest Higher Density of Particles in One Section of Saturn’s Rings

Perimeter Institute’s Webcast Lecture Series Topics Include Quantum Mechanics, Cosmology and Dark Matter

The MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope at La Silla Observatory Captures Excellent Pictures of Prawn Nebula

ALICE Collaboration Obtains Precise Measurement of Properties of Light Atomic Nuclei and Anti-Nuclei

Geologists and Physicists Generate World’s First Global Map of Antineutrino Emissions

Different Magnesium Compounds Could Be Abundant Inside Other Distant Planets

Gravitational Microlensing Helps Discover Distant Gas Giant Exoplanet

ATLAS and CMS Collaborations Present Combined Measurements of Higgs Properties

Astronomers at Georgia State University to Debate Scientific Theories about Dark Matter

Powerful Aurora Discovered on Low-Mass Star

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