Credit: M. F. Corcoran
A Happy High Energy New Year
The turn of a new year is always an appropriate time for looking back at all that came before. The past year saw a great number of important advances in our understanding of the high-energy Universe. We witnessed a supernova explosion breaking out of its death shroud, for the first time. We measured the donut-shaped geometry of the magnetic field of the Crab Nebula. We watched the launch of XRISM, a radically new type of X-ray observatory (and we eagerly await XRISM's first observations to come in the new year). We explored the Milky Way in neutrinos, and discovered the most distant supermassive black hole yet seen. We saw how blasts from deep space can alter earth's ionosphere, and used X-ray space observatories to study the effects of global warming on the earth's upper atmosphere. We celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, imagining the gamma-ray Universe through panes of stained glass, and saw cosmic waves from a black hole's outburst in a petri dish. Happy New Year and here's to an adventurous year full of startling discoveries.
Published: January 1, 2024
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