Science Never Looked So Good - Stock Photos of the Ghost Particle

These obviously aren't actual photos of the 'ghost particle', but its amazing how creative some publishers will get, when trying to illustrate how some sort of particle on the nano-spectrum looks. Ever since the first detection of neutrons in 1970, scientists have been doing whatever they can to try to learn about, and isolate the particle. But how does one go about identifying the mass of an object that is one of the closest to having no mass? The brightest scientific minds have been working for decades to figure it out. But for now, what we know is simply the upper limit that the mass of these particles could reach. The lower limit could literally be nothing, so there is still a lot of work to do.

Scientists are saying the discovery begins a new era of space science and research. Maybe one day we'll finally get a selfie with an alien. For now all we can do is wait for the next raid of Area 51 to check out what is really out there beyond out planet.

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First Contact

100 billion neutrinos fly through your thumb from the Sun every second, 24 hours a day. First hypothesized about in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli, neutrinos and their study are critical in fields like nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Via Physicists Determine Maximum Possible Mass for Lightest Neutrino
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CNN went with the 'Beam Me Up Scotty' model

Via Scientists share new details about mysterious 'ghost particle' | CNN
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I give you - the bottom of CNN's vacuum cleaner or maybe a picture of the galaxy

Via Scientists share new details about mysterious 'ghost particle' | CNN
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Science Alert went with Windows Media Player visualization

Via Scientists Just Used The Cosmos to Measure The Mass of a Ghost Particle | ScienceAlert
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The Conversation gets bonus points for using an actual space picture

Though not a picture of a neutrino, this has everything to do with how important their study is. In order to understand almost anything going on in space, understanding their function and interaction. They also play a distinct role in supernovas and the evolution of stars. If scientists could isolate its mass, current theories of Physics that make up the backbone of research, would be rendered moot.

Via Ghost particles: how galaxies helped us weigh the lightest neutrino | TheConversation
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This image has been used for years except this time for something completely different

Despite being used for an article about black holes done by a university, apparently recycling an image because it has the same tag.

Via Scientists share new details about mysterious 'ghost particle' | KOAM Fox News
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Look it's a wannabe Jackson Pollock

Via Lightest neutrino is at least 6 million times lighter than an electron | Nature.com
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It looks like universities have the right idea with actually using space pictures

Again, not even close to a neutrino, this is a picture of a galaxy that is incalculably larger than a neutron. We literally can't calculate it because we don't know the mass of a neutrino. Though maybe all this attention to the smallest thing known will help move things along.

Via Ghost Particles Could Explain Just About Everything in the Universe | Popular Mechanics
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Another center of higher education who chose wisely

Now this may not be a picture of a neutrino, but it is at least a picture of one of the sites where they are attempting to isolate and catch them for further research. I wonder if they have a fishing pole with a magnet at a sub-atomic level they use to try to catch them...

Via Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data | Phys.org