The Horsham Park bird event proved very popular with families, with children voting the robin as their favourite species.The Friends of Horsham Park’s bird event was held to coincide with the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch at the end of January.All bird-spotting walks sold out ahead of time and extra sessions were scheduled to meet the demand.Parks and Countryside Wardens, Jake Everritt and Jo Glossop, guided families around the Park, showing great places to spot birds, including at the newly cleaned up pond. The leaders were impressed with the enthusiasm and the ability to identify birds. A bird treasure hunt in the Human Nature Garden was another fun way to learn how to identify birds. Children also voted for their favourite bird, putting the robin in top place again after it won in the last Bird Event in 2020. They also enjoyed spinning a wheel to find out about the target species the Friends and Horsham District Council’s Parks and Countryside team focus on supporting, including fi
On Sept. 22, 2017, a ghostly particle ejected from a far distant supermassive black hole zipped down from the sky and through the ice of Antarctica at just below the speed of light, with an energy of some 300 trillion electron volts, nearly 50 times the energy delivered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the biggest particle accelerator on Earth.
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
The cosmic invader –a messenger from the depths of extragalactic space, carrying secrets from some of the most extreme physics in the universe– triggered a cacophony of code-red detectors in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (image below) located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, perhaps solving one of the enduring mysteries of physics and the cosmos.