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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Polar Telescope Casts New Light On Dark Energy And Neutrino Mass

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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