Physical Sciences

The muon’s magnetic moment fits just fine
Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon
Guest Editor - Winter 2021
Don Schneider Science Journal Winter 2021 guest editor.
The Disks That Make Solar Systems Flat
A newly formed star surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk.
HETDEX and the ‘Quest for the Rest’
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.

The search for dark energy could help illuminate the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of our universe

Detail in the Debris
Jiayin Dong from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal
Improving Analysis of Astronomy Data
Ian Czekala for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Person to Person: Caryl Gronwall
Caryl Gronwall featured image for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Can We Detect Binary Supermassive Black Holes?
Michael Eracleous
Beyond the Limits of Observation
This full-sky image of the temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) in the cosmic microwave background was made from nine years of observations by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite. These temperature fluctuations are the seeds of galaxies, from a time when the universe was less than 400,000 years old. Credit: NASA

Theory is informed by data in describing the early universe

Research Now - Winter 2021
Science Journal hero universe
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