A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the...
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A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
Graham tried tweaking the CNN approach so that the kernel would only be placed on 3-by-3 sections of the image that contain at least one...
No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring,...
Citizen Scientists Show Light Pollution Erases Stars From the Sky
Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye assessments of the night sky....
Why This Universe? Maybe It’s Not Special—Just Probable
Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we...
Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of each determines what they’ll look...
Scientists discover a mysterious planetary debris in Milky Way Galaxy, pieces of extinct Solar System
One of the oldest rocky and frozen planetary systems in the Milky Way has been detected by astronomers, and it orbits the oldest star in...
The Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet
The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained. (Its photo looks grainier than...
The James Webb Telescope’s First Photos Show Its Extraordinary Power
Astronomers and space fans have been waiting years for this moment: The James Webb Space Telescope team has finally made public a handful of stunning...
Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
On the eve of this new era of moon landings, a slew of fresh studies of PSRs have revealed that these shadowed regions are even...