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Image of one of the first bubbles seen in the COUPP-60 detector, located half a mile underground at SNOLAB in Ontario, Canada. The bubble appears as a black semi-circle on the lower left-hand side of the image. The white ovals in the center are reflections of LED lights. (Courtesy: SNOLAB) |
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The light curve of PS1-10afx compared to a normal SNIa. The blue dots show the observations of PS1-10afx through a red (i-band) filter, which corresponds to ultra-violet (UV) light in the rest frame of the supernova. The red squares show UV observations of the nearby SNIa, 2011fe compressed slightly along the time axis to match the width of PS1-10afx in its rest frame. The dashed lines show a fit to the SN 2011fe data and this same curve shifted by a constant factor of 30. The good agreement with the PS1-10afx data shows that PS1-10afx has the lightcurve shape of a normal SNIa, but it is 30 times brighter than expected. (Courtesy: Kavli IPMU) |
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Schematic illustration of the magnification of PS1-10afx. A massive object between us and the supernova bends light rays much as a glass lens can focus light. As more light rays are directed toward the observer than would be without the lens, the supernova appears magnified. (Courtesy: Kavli IPMU) |
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This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota. (Courtesy: NOvA collaboration) |
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Stephan Ettenauer, a post-doctorial fellow on the ATRAP experiment , with the Penning trap apparatus for trapping antiprotons. (Courtesy: CERN, Anna Pantelia) |
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Presentation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) latest results at Moriond/QCD conference, Mar. 9-16, 2013 at La Thuile, Italy (Courtesy: CERN) |
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Presentation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) latest results at Moriond/QCD conference, Mar. 9-16, 2013 at La Thuile, Italy (Courtesy: CERN) |
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Presentation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) latest results at Moriond/QCD conference, Mar. 9-16, 2013 at La Thuile, Italy (Courtesy: CERN) |
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This image combines data from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory with Fermi's gamma-ray observations (magenta) of supernova remnant W44. This remnant is a prime example of the remains of a supernova interacting with dense interstellar material around it and was one of two supernova remnants that provided the data Fermi needed to prove that cosmic rays are accelerated in supernova shock waves. (Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration and ESA/Herschel) |
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Finding evidence for the acceleration of protons has long been a key issue in the efforts to explain the origin of cosmic rays. This pair of spectra from two supernova remnants, shown here with data from various satellites and wavelengths, are the "smoking gun" that researchers have been looking for. The Fermi Large Area Telescope's observations fit neatly with predictions of neutral pion decay. (Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA Herschel/XMM-Newton) |
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LHCb Experiment - #LHCb say “THANKS!!” to #LHC operators for delivering them 2 fb-1 (hundred million million visible collisions) in 2012 (Courtesy: CERN) |
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BOSS is capturing accurate spectra for millions of astronomical objects by using 2,000 plug plates that are placed at the Sloan Foundation Telescope's focal plane. Each of the 1,000 holes drilled in a single plug plate captures the light from a specific galaxy, quasar, or other target, and conveys its light to a sensitive spectrograph through an optical fiber. The plates are marked to indicate which holes belong to which bundles of the thousand optical fibers that carry the object's light. (Courtesy: Berkeley Lab) |
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Photo montage showing the gamma-ray sky over Namibia, as measured by the four H.E.S.S. telescopes during the last years, superimposed onto an optical image, with one of the small H.E.S.S. telescopes in the foreground (Credit: H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Fabio Acero and Henning Gast) |
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View of the full H.E.S.S. array with the four 12 m telescopes and the new 28 m H.E.S.S. II telescope (Credit: H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Arnim Balzer) |
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The "camera" with photosensors and readout electronics is loaded into the nose of the telescope (Credit: H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Arnim Balzer) |
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RHIC's two large experiments, STAR and PHENIX, have multiple detector components and complex electronics for tracking and identifying the particles that fly out after ions collide at nearly the speed of light. (Courtesy: BNL) |
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The nuclear phase diagram: RHIC sits in the energy "sweet spot" for exploring the transition between ordinary matter made of hadrons and the early universe matter known as quark-gluon plasma. Courtesy: BNL) |
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XENON100 (Courtesy: XENON Collaboration) |
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Rolf Heuer at CERN Higgs Boson search update (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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Higgs Boson search update - 4 July 2012 (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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Joe Incandela, CERN spokesperson for Higgs Boson search update (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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John Ellis, Higgs Boson search update at CERN (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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Fabiola Gianotti, ATLAS experiment spokesperson, at Higgs Boson search update at CERN (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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Peter Higgs, Higgs Boson search update at CERN (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Courtesy: CERN) |
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