02/19/2026 That the Universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion remains hotly debated, even challenging the standard model of cosmology. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institutes for Astrophysics (MPA) and for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has now imaged and modelled an exceptionally rare supernova nicknamed SN Winny that could provide a new, independent way to measure how fast the Universe is expanding. The project was…
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02/12/2026 During the past Antarctic summer season, a team of 51 scientists and technicians – including two members of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) – installed more than 600 new sensors at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The upgrade represents a major scientific and engineering achievement, realized through close collaboration with German and international partners.
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