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LEAD, S.D. - Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) announced its selection of the 2024 cohort of Davis-Bahcall Scholars. Hailing from various locations across South Dakota, these scholars will engage in

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990 to understand the universe.

Life is a balancing act. As we age — we become wiser, but we have less time left to live. Given the opportunity to choose one day to live again, I would choose my last day. I would relive the last…

Neutrinos are some of the most mysterious particles in nature, capable of passing through the Earth like it wasnt there.

"The Earth's atmosphere is an imperfect window on the universe... atmospheric turbulence blurs the images of celestial objects, even when they are viewed through the most powerful ground-based telescopes." -John Bahcall There's no doubt that the Hubble Space Telescope has given us some of the most spectacular, high resolution views of the Universe. From the most distant galaxies ever seen to stars here in our own galactic backyard, the Hubble Space Telescope has simply dwarfe...

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -Albert Einstein Now that you know how many galaxies are in our expanding Universe, you might be wondering about their speeds.

"I know all about neutrinos, and my friend here knows about everything else in astrophysics." -John Bahcall Neutrinos are the most poorly understood particles in the standard model. Remember the standard model?

"We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen." -John Bahcall

"These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino astronomy." -John Bahcall You've been around here long enough to know about the Big Bang. The vast majority of galaxies are speeding away from us, but more than that, the farther away they are from us, the faster they appear to be receding.

“These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we’re about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino astronomy.” -John Bahcall From the Hubble expansion of the Universe to isotropy and homogeneity to the light elements to the leftover radiation glow to the formation of large-scale structure in the Universe, the Big Bang is by far the most successful scientific description of the Universe of all-time.