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Atoms, string theory, dark matter, dark energy... there's an awful lot about the Universe that might make sense on paper (to physicists, anyway) but is extremely difficult to detect and measure, at least with the technol...

This is part 3 of my Keck NIRC2 observing log. (See Part 1 and Part 2). So I can't sleep, so I decided to go take some photos of where I'll be sitting all night. So here's what it's like to be in Keck Remote Operations R...

It's one of the most intense and violent of all events in space - a supernova. Now a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have been taking a very specialized look at the formation of neutron s...