Read article 'What’s new in particles and cosmology?'
What’s new in particles and cosmology?
The 1999 DESY Theory Workshop concentrated on the growing symbiosis between particle physics (particularly neutrinos) and cosmology.
Read article 'What’s new in particles and cosmology?'
Read article 'A brief history of the universe'
A brief history of the universe
During 1998-9, Peter Kalmus of London's Queen Mary and Westfield College lectured on "Particles and the universe" in 43 UK locations to 10 000 high-school students.Readers of CERN Courier will be ...
Read article 'The Hubble century'
The Hubble century
The name of Hubble will be eternally linked with 20th-century astronomy. At the beginning of the 20th century astronomers knew of planets and stars, and anything else was called a nebula (derived from...
Read article 'A masing new ruler'
A masing new ruler
Observations of astronomical water masers have provided us with a new measure of distance in space. Maser emission was detected by a team using the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), from material ro...
Read article 'ACCESS intercepts cosmic rays'
ACCESS intercepts cosmic rays
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is coordinating a study, by an international collaboration, of a high-energy cosmic-ray instrument for the International Space Station.
Read article 'Italian astronomy enters new era'
Italian astronomy enters new era
Astronomers in Italy will soon have a new coordinating body the National Institute of Astrophysics to regroup the 12 national observatories and strengthen ties with university astronomy ...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Astrowatch
Galileo telescope Galileo, the new 3.5 m Italian national telescope, will soon be open to astronomers. Situated on the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands at an altitude of 2400 m...
Read article 'Latest news from the early universe'
Latest news from the early universe
This month the first elements of the Very Small Array will be installed on Mount Teide in Tenerife. This is one of a number of new projects studying the cosmic microwave background.
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Astrowatch
New study of distant quasars Subaru, Japan’s new 8.3 m telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (CERN Courier March), is being used for a new study of gravitationally lensed quasars. A luminosity of mor...
Read article 'The Sun: a brilliant past and an even brighter future'
The Sun: a brilliant past and an even brighter future
The Sun may be the centre of our world, but it is not a typical star. At a special meeting, arranged by l'Observatoire de Paris at the Moët et Chandon manor at Epernay for the total solar eclipse of ...
