"He thought of ways to detect neutrinos, showed that it could be done and that was a psychologically important breakthrough in the whole field."

It was designed to detect solar neutrinos and prove theories related to the Sun's energy creation mechanism.

The only way to detect neutrinos is through their exceedingly rare collisions with ordinary matter.

This eliminated some possible errors related to matching detected neutrinos to their creation time.

Among other work, the detector should be able to detect neutrinos from our galaxy and possibly nearby galaxies.

Was it possible to detect neutrinos from the heavens, however?

It uses 900 light sensors attached to 12 strings that float in the sea to detect neutrinos.

The detector was designed to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with a large tank of heavy water.

The project may also be able to detect neutrinos from supernova within our galaxy.

The project first detected solar neutrinos in August 2007.