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Most Distant Supernova May Shed Light on Dark Energy
Andrew Fazekas for National Geographic News Published April 5, 2013 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a supernova ten billion light-years from Earth—the most distant stellar explosion of its kind ever detected, a new study says. (See “Biggest Star Explosion Seen; Was Rare, ‘Clean’ Death.”) The faint, near-infrared speck of light […]
CERN Physicists See Higgs Boson in New Particle
Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said Thursday that the new particle discovered with enormous fanfare last summer definitely looks like a Higgs boson, the particle famously predicted by Peter Higgs and others to imbue elementary particles with mass. But they said they still needed more data to understand how it works […]
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