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An artist's concept of a highly magnetized neutron star. According to current theory, axions would be created in the hot interior of the neutron star. UC Berkeley astrophysicists say that the strong magnetic field of the star will transform these axions into gamma rays that can be detected from Earth, pinpointing the mass of the axion. Casey Reed, courtesy of Penn State; reproduction is permitted under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks New observations of distant galaxies could shake up the consensus view of the universe's expansion. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Kodroff, Taurean Zhang, Yue Wang, and Bahareh Ardestani hosted Berkeley Lab’s Dark Matter Day event at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA, on October 31. Photo credit: Michelle Z. Rodriguez, Lawrence Hall of Science DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro LBNL Director's Awards - logo banner Christian Bauer is a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab affiliated with QSA. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab 2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM finalists: (top row, left to right) Gurjyot Sethi, Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta, Ivo Marković, Lisa Schlueter, Yumary Vasquez, and Laleh Coté; (bottom row, left to right) Saurabh Sawant, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Bri Finley, Dennis Noll, Nicholas Dale, and Anne Fortman. Image Credit: Berkeley Lab Elements The Carousel Lens, as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: William Sheu/UCLA LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility Group photo of the 2024 Physics in and Through Cosmology Workshop participants. Photo: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

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