CAST Cern Axion Solar Telescope

03/07/2019

Astronomers observe that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but what causes this acceleration is unknown. A form of energy known as dark energy is the most popular explanation, and is keeping scientists the world over occupied searching for it. Now, a team of researchers working with...

08/11/2018

The dark matter in our stellar neighborhood may be moving at high speed, which might produce a signature that future dark matter searches could detect.

23/03/2018

A blend of the images from the sun filming of 22.03.2018 where we check the accuracy of the Sun tracking.
At the end of the video, when the Vertical encoder is at maximum, one can see the Sun escape our tracking capabilities.

26/10/2017

https://indico.cern.ch/event/672382/

09/10/2017

About half the normal matter in our universe had never been observed – until now. Two teams have finally seen it by combining millions of faint images into one

03/10/2017

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics. This year the announcement will be on Tuesday 3 October, 11:45 a.m. at t...

06/09/2017

02/09/2017

Today, an official ceremony marked the inauguration of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), in Schenefeld-Hamburg, Germany. Extending over a distance of 3.4 km in tunnels departing from DESY in Bahrenfeld-Hamburg, it will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes at a rate of 27 000 per s...

22/08/2017

Enjoy the spectacle!

Image of the Moon transiting across the Sun, taken by SDO in 171 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light on Aug. 21, 2017.

19/08/2017