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 Yahoo! News Search Results for Astronomy How Astronomy Lit Up the Solar System Astronomy has come a long way in the 401 years since Galileo turned his first primitive telescope to the sky, so it's no surprise we see a very different solar system than the field's earliest pioneers. Astronomy and particle physics race to replace Standard Model If energy issues seem to be attracting the attention of a lot of physicists, the Large Hadron Collider seems to be drawing the attention of many of the rest of them, including people in fields like cosmology, which deals with items on the opposite end of the size scale. In turn, the people working on the LHC and other particle detectors are carefully paying attention to the latest astronomy ... World-renowned astronomer Donald C. Backer dies at age 66 Astronomy professor Don Backer, a world leader in the field of radio astronomy, has died. Backer made seminal contributions to the study of pulsars; other research focused on high-energy astrophysics, the epoch of reionization and the exploration of these topics with the most imaginative instrumentation. |