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Dwarf Galaxy 3.

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Traces of iron spread smoothly throughout a massive galaxy cluster tell the 10 billion-year-old story of exploding supernovae and fierce outbursts from supermassive black...

Image: Illustration of some markers of the universe's turbulent youth, such as supernova explosions and active galactic nuclei (Akihiro Ikeshita).
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On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope rode a Delta II rocket into low-Earth orbit. After two months...

Photo - The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launches June 11, 2008
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For the 41st annual Particle Physics & Astrophysics Department’s SLAC Summer Institute (SSI), organizers introduced a successful new feature.

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Theorists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology are helping dark matter sleuths decide where to start their search.

KIPAC theorists (l to r) Louis Strigari, Risa Wechsler and Yao-Yuan Mao discussing dark matter velocity distributions. (Credit: Luis Fernandez.)
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A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world.

Image - Superbright gamma-ray burst
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A new study confirms what scientists have long suspected: Cosmic rays – energetic particles that pelt Earth from all directions – are born in...

Artist's rendition of a supernova shock wave
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Black holes are the ultimate Bogeyman.

Image - Black hole simulation with accretion disk and...
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The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be...

Side by side photos of Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet
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Menlo Park, Calif. — A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality.

LSST Lens
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Cooks think of watched pots. Handymen grumble about drying paint.

A very clean Knut Skarpaas, SLAC engineer, with half of the equally clean detector (Photo courtesy EXO collaboration.)