15+ Breathtaking Pics Of Volcano Eruption In Chile That Forced 4,000 To Evacuate

Calbuco, a 2,000m (6,572ft) volcano in Chile, has erupted twice in the past day, sending emergency services (and photographers) into overdrive. The eruption has prompted the evacuation of roughly...

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Cold cosmic mystery solved: Largest known structure in the universe leaves its imprint on CMB radiation

The Cold Spot area resides in the constellation Eridanus in the southern galactic hemisphere. The insets show the environment of this anomalous patch of the sky as mapped by Szapudi's team using PS1 and WISE data and as observed in the cosmic  In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation leftover from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background, or CMB) discovered the Cold...

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Want To Do A Little Astrophysics? This App Detects Cosmic Rays

App turns a smartphone into a pocket-sized cosmic ray detector March 27, 2015 2:30 PM ET Joe Palca Smart phones contain a silicon chip inside the camera that might be used to detect rare, high energy particles from outer space. ...

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CLOUD

Could there be a link between galactic cosmic rays and cloud formation? An experiment at CERN is using the cleanest box in the world to find out The Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD) experiment uses a special cloud chamber to study the possible link between galactic cosmic rays and cloud formation. Based at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) at CERN, this...

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Antarctica Recorded Its Hottest Temperature On Record This Week

by Ari Phillips   Posted on March 28, 2015 at 10:48 am Updated: March 30, 2015 at 4:51 pm "Antarctica Recorded Its Hottest Temperature On Record This Week"   CREDIT: shutterstock The coldest place on Earth just got warmer than has ever been recorded. According to the weather blog Weather Underground, on Tuesday, March 24, the temperature in Antarctica rose to 63.5°F...

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Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

31 March 2015 by Sarah Scoles Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message? BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human – or alien – technology. Telescopes...

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Giant Radio Telescope Peels Away Magnetic Field Shrouding Black Hole

by Shannon Hall, Writer   |   April 16, 2015 02:01pm ET An artist's impression shows a black hole's surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ...

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Violent Methane Storms on Titan May Explain Strange Dunes

by Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor   |   April 13, 2015 03:27pm ET A methane ice cloud is seen over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in December 2006. Scientists...

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Gravitational Wave Detection Update: Prospects for Impacts on Fundamental Physics

Author(s) Schutz, Bernard (speaker) Corporate author(s) CERN. Geneva Imprint 2015-04-15. - Streaming video. Series (TH Theoretical Seminar) Lecture note on 2015-04-15T14:00:00 Subject category TH Theoretical Seminar Copyright/License © 2015 CERN Submitted by gavin.salam@cern.ch click here to get the link ...

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CERN webcast: "The Odyssey of Voyager" by Prof. Edward C. Stone, as part of the AMS days at CERN

webcast link click here Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the two Voyager spacecraft continued their journeys beyond the planets as they searched for the edge of heliosphere, the giant bubble of wind surrounding the sun. Beyond the bubble lies interstellar space, the space between the stars filled with matter from the explosions of other stars and by the magnetic field of the Milky Way. After a thirty-five year journey taking it eighteen billion kilometers from the Earth, Voyager 1 became the first human-made...

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