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Milky Way Galaxy Has Mirrorlike Symmetry
Our galaxy is a rare beauty with an uncommon symmetry — one half of the Milky Way is essentially the mirror image of the other half, astronomers have discovered.
Crab Nebula Spews Most Powerful Flares Yet
The latest and greatest outbursts from the Crab Nebula — long known for its steady high-energy glow — are challenging theories about how the heavens accelerate charged particles to high energies.
Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundamental physics.
Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going
Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion so strange they don’t even know what to call it.
LHC Locking In on New Elementary Particle
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, may be only months away from finding a new elementary particle — a sign of a new force in nature — recent studies suggest.