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University of Minnesota Physicists to Present First Results from NOvA Experiment

University of Minnesota physicists Professor Greg Pawloski and Dr. Jianming Bian will present the first results from the NOvA experiment at a Special Elementary Particle Physics seminar Wednesday, August 12, at 3:00 PM in Room 110 Physics and Nanotechnology Building.

10 Aug 2015

NOvA Scientists Observe Neutrino Oscillations for the First Time

Scientists on the NOvA experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making great progress toward its goal of a major leap in our understanding of these ghostly particles.

10 Aug 2015

Yale University Astronomer Helps Untangle Cosmic Knots of Stars within Giant, Elliptical Galaxies

A Yale University astronomer has helped untangle the cosmic knots of stars at the center of giant, elliptical galaxies.

7 Aug 2015

Pulsar Study Helps Astronomers Understand Gravitational Behavior Across Cosmos

Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, appears reassuringly constant across the Universe, according to a decades-long study of a distant pulsar. This research helps to answer a long-standing question in cosmology: Is the force of gravity the same everywhere and at all times? The answer, so far, appears to be yes.

7 Aug 2015

ESO's Very Large Telescope Captures Best View of Little-Known Southern Owl Nebula

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This is the best view of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

6 Aug 2015

Large Disk Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Days of the Universe

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.

6 Aug 2015

Cosmic Web Imager Provides Evidence for Cold-Flow Model of Galaxy Formation

A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away--a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.

6 Aug 2015

Astronomers Find Galaxies 5 Billion Light Years Across

A Hungarian-US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts – and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across.

6 Aug 2015

Saturn’s Planetary Rings May Have Universally Similar Particle Distribution

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age-old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

6 Aug 2015

New Model Could Explain Loss of Lithium in Stars

Lithium, the lightest metal, used in batteries and mood-stabilising drugs, is rarer than it should be. Models of the period after the Big Bang explain how it, hydrogen and helium were synthesised in nuclear reactions, before the universe cooled enough for the stars and planets that we see today to come into being.

6 Aug 2015