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Polar Telescope Casts New Light On Dark Energy And Neutrino Mass
The 10-meter South Pole Telescope in Antarctica is located at the Amundsen-Scott Station, literally at the geographic southern pole of our planet. (Daniel Luong-Van, National Science Foundation)
Located at the southermost point on Earth, the 280-ton, 10-meter-wide South Pole Telescope has helped astronomers unravel the nature of dark energy and zero in on the actual mass of neutrinos — elusive subatomic particles that pervade the Universe and, until very recently, were thought to be entirely without measureable mass.
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Post tags: CMB, Cosmology, Dark Energy, galaxy cluster, neutrino, NSF, particle physics, Science, South Pole Telescope, SPT
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