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Tag: Astrophysics & Cosmology

Dark Matter Experiment’s Central Component Takes a Deep Dive – Nearly a Mile Underground

Photo - The LUX-ZEPLIN cryostat, which houses the experiment’s main detector, is pictured here in a surface lab before its delivery underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/SURF)

Q&A with Berkeley Lab Nuclear Scientist Maria Żurek

Photo - Maria Zurek, right, speaks during a discussion panel at the Linda Nobel Laureates Meeting. (Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting)

Study Reveals ‘Radical’ Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

Composite image: This composite image shows an illustration of a carbon-rich red giant star (bottom left) warming an exoplanet (middle) and an overlay of a newly found pathway that could enable complex carbons to form near these stars. (Credits: ESO/L. Calçada; Berkeley Lab, Florida International University, and University of Hawaii at Manoa)

VIDEO: Particle Accelerators Drive Decades of Discoveries at Berkeley Lab and Beyond

Image - Excellence in Accelerators video title screen

Some Assembly Required: Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment

Upper and Lower PMT arrays during assembly

Simons Foundation Contributes $20M More to Observatory Exploring Early Universe

The site of Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation)

3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Photo - Bok and Mayall telescopes at Kitt Peak

A New Filter to Better Map the Dark Universe

Photo illustration - Just as the wine glass distorts an image of the cosmic microwave background in this photo illustration, large objects like galaxy clusters and galaxies can similar distort this light to produce lensing effects. (Credit: Emmanuel Schaan and Simone Ferraro/Berkeley Lab)

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected as National Academy of Sciences Members

VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe

Image - In this video, DESI project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab, DESI Collaboration)

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

Berkeley Lab Researcher Wins Machine-Learning Competition With Code That Sorts Through Simulated Telescope Data

A rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's dome. (Credit: LSST Collaboration)