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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Makemake's moon

Moon discovered orbiting dwarf planet Makemake

27th April 2016 SPadmin Leave a comment

The dwarf planet Makemake (pronounced Mah-kay Mah-kay), in the Kuiper Belt, has been shown by the Hubble Space Telescope to possess a moon.
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IceCube neutrino detector

Neutrino source pinpointed for first time

27th April 2016 SPadmin Leave a comment
IceCube neutrino detector
The IceCube detector – a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice threaded with sensitive light detectors.

The IceCube neutrino telescope in Antarctica, the Fermi gamma ray telescope in low earth orbit and an array of radio telescopes across the Southern Hemisphere, have been used collaboratively to pinpoint a neutrino source in deep space for the first time.
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