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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Cosmic perspective

Through nine questions, from the merely intriguing to the existential and utterly bonkers, this special feature confronts the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it.
Some sunlight is more energetic than it should be

Space

Astronomers have spotted inexplicably bright light coming from the sun

Extraordinarily high-energy gamma rays have been found emanating from the sun, and none of our theoretical models can explain why there are so many of them

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Space

IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particleâ€

Space

We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particleâ€

Features

This composite image of X-rays from Chandra (colored light blue) and optical data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (yellow, red, white, and blue) shows a beautiful new look at the compact group of galaxies known as Stephan???s Quintet. One galaxy is thought to be passing through the others at almost two million miles per hour. This generates a shock wave that heats the gas and creates the ridge of X-ray emission detected by Chandra.

Space

Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy

Features

HEXDC6 Cosmic rays.Artwork of high-energy particles radiation from star in deep space (cosmic rays) impacting molecules atoms in Earth's atmosphere.These primary impacts cause secondary cascade of subatomic particles.Detection analysis of these particles,which include protons,neutrons,light nuclei,neutrinos,pions,and muons,can reveal source of cosmic rays.These sources may include gamma ray bursts (GRBs),active galactic nuclei,supernovae quasars.Such research is carried out atmospheric balloons,or advanced detectors built underground or underwater,to shield them from other radiation.

Technology

US Navy is developing GPS that uses cosmic rays to navigate the Arctic

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Milky way galaxy

Space

A strange barrier is keeping cosmic rays out of the Milky Way’s centre

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Ophiuchus constellation

Space

Mysterious cosmic rays spotted coming from ordinary stellar explosions

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Godzilla

Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation

Culture

Northern lights

Earth

The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why

Features

Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one

Space

Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one

For the first time, we have traced a high-energy neutrino back to its origin - a black hole 4 billion light years away - and solved an old cosmic mystery

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Space

Amazing GIF shows dust and cosmic rays raining down on comet 67P

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Space

Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos

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Space

Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

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Physics

Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

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