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Beam circulation and beyond: pre-Christmas LHC activities

Tags: Physics

The Large Hadron Collider achieves its first circulation of proton beams this year.

Want a planet? You might want to avoid lithium

Tags: Astronomy

Stars that have planets appear to be poor in lithium.

Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory discovers a carbon atmosphere on a neutron star.

NASA finds reservoir of water ice on the Moon!

Preliminary analysis of the impact plume from LCROSS indicates significant amounts of water on the Moon.

In the news this month... a record-breaking distant cluster

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The most distant galaxy cluster ever found so far at 10.2 billion light-years away has been discovered.

More on LHC beam in CMS

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CMS has started observing LHC beam splash events for the first time in 2009.

No, No Baguette!

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The Large Hadron Collider overheats and suffers further delays because of bread crumbs dropped by a bird.

Beam is Back! The LHC Restarts

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This past weekend saw the first beam particles in the Large Hadron Collider since the magnet quench incident of September 2008.

A New Challenge to Einstein?

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing suggest that large-scale structure in the universe might deviate from what would be predicted by general relativity.

First Images of LCROSS Centaur Impact Plume Released

NASA has released new images of the LCROSS impact, where the plume appears to have just been less spectacular than expected.

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