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Watch a Million Particles Collide

February 17, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch the video above and find out. This was created by David Moore, a self-taught computer programmer, aspiring physicist and student at [...]

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Saturn’s Fluctuating F Ring

November 19, 2012

Bright clumps of material spotted within Saturn’s ropy F ring (NASA/JPL/SSI) Released today, this image acquired by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows some interesting structures forming within Saturn’s thinnest but most dynamic ring. Remove this ad

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A Rare Type of Solar Storm Spotted by Satellite

June 1, 2012

When a moderate-sized M-class flare erupted from the Sun on May 17, it sent out a barrage of high-energy solar particles that belied its initial intensity. These particles traveled at nearly the speed of light, crossing the 93 million miles between the Sun and Earth in a mere 20 minutes and impacting our atmosphere, causing [...]

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Finding Out What Dark Matter Is – And Isn’t

April 3, 2012

Astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have been looking for evidence of suspected types of dark matter particles within faint dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way — relatively “boring” galaxies that have little activity but are known to contain large amounts of dark matter. The results? These aren’t the particles we’re looking for. Remove [...]

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Top Quark

July 2, 2011

The top quark is one the fundamental building blocks of nature. It is the last of the six quarks predicted under the standard model theory and the last to be discovered. It was discovered in 1995 at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Illinois, 30 miles away from Chicago. The discovery came after a [...]

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