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May 25, 2016

Hunting for Dark Matter's "Hidden Valley
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 25, 2016
Kathryn Zurek realized a decade ago that we may be searching in the wrong places for clues to one of the universe's greatest unsolved mysteries: dark matter. Despite making up an estimated 85 percent of the total mass of the universe, we haven't yet figured out what it's made of. Now, Zurek, a theoretical physicist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), says thanks to extraordinary improvements in experimental sensitivity, "We increasingly know where no ... read more

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OU astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220 A University of Oklahoma team has detected for the first time the most luminous gamma-ray emission from a galaxy--the merging galaxy Arp 220 is the nearest ultraluminous infrared galaxy to Earth, an ... more		Closing in on the elusive rotational-vibrational CH5+ spectra Protonated methane, a.k.a. CH5+, is a highly unusual molecule that scientists and astronomers suspect may be found within the interstellar medium where stars and planets are formed. To identif ... more		Cassini goes up and over for final mission tour of Saturn Cassini orbited in Saturn's ring plane - around the planet's equator - for most of 2015. This enabled a season of flybys of the planet's icy moons, but did not allow for angled views of the rings an ... more
				Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy ever. Using the W. M. Keck Observat ... more		NASA Begins Launch Preparations for the First U.S. Asteroid Sampling Mission NASA's first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday, May 20, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and has begun final preparations in advance of its ... more

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Amateurs prepare big-picture perspective to support Juno

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