| Brightest gamma-ray burst of all time came from the collapse of a massive star |
Science Image |
April 15, 2024 |
| Partial Solar Eclipse from Indiana |
Science Image |
April 9, 2024 |
| Total Solar Eclipse from Indiana |
Science Image |
April 9, 2024 |
| ‘Blob-like’ home of farthest-known fast radio burst is collection of seven galaxies |
Science Image |
January 10, 2024 |
| Flower Moon above Chicago photographed by Imran Sultan |
Science Image |
December 13, 2023 |
| Western Veil Nebula photographed by Imran Sultan |
Science Image |
December 13, 2023 |
| ‘Teenage galaxies’ are unusually hot, glowing with unexpected elements |
Science Image |
November 20, 2023 |
| Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn |
Science Image |
October 4, 2023 |
| Black holes eat faster than previously expected |
Science Image |
September 21, 2023 |
| Black holes eat faster than previously expected |
Science Image |
September 21, 2023 |
| Black holes eat faster than previously expected |
Science Image |
September 21, 2023 |
| Black holes eat faster than previously expected |
Science Image |
September 21, 2023 |
| Unprecedented gamma-ray burst explained by long-lived jet |
Science Video |
September 11, 2023 |
| ‘Jupiter’ passed through massive stars |
Science Video |
September 7, 2023 |
| ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ passed through massive stars |
Science Video |
September 7, 2023 |
| 17-year time-lapse of Beta Pictoris b orbiting its star |
Science Video |
August 23, 2023 |
| Listen to a star ‘twinkle’ |
Science Video |
July 28, 2023 |
| Unveiling the origins of merging black holes in galaxies like our own |
Science Image |
June 29, 2023 |
| Supernova SN2023ixf visible in pinwheel galaxy |
Science Image, Observed Image |
June 9, 2023 |
| Supernova SN2023ixf visible in pinwheel galaxy (labeled) |
Science Image, Observed Image |
June 9, 2023 |
| Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way’s center |
Science Image |
June 6, 2023 |
| Dying stars’ cocoons could be new source of gravitational waves |
Science Video |
June 5, 2023 |
| Aaron Geller and Alex Gurvich showcase Firefly on AAS Journal Author Series |
Interview |
June 1, 2023 |
| Medium-sized black holes eat stars like messy toddlers |
Science Video |
April 25, 2023 |
| Data Science Challenges in Gravitational Wave Surveys: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Tyson Littenburg |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
April 20, 2023 |
| “Dance of the Black Holes”, composed by Darsan Swaroop Bellie |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
April 18, 2023 |
| Transforming Research: CIERA |
Interview |
April 11, 2023 |
| Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Interview |
April 11, 2023 |
| Origin, Evolution and Habitability of Planet Earth: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by David Bercovici |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
April 4, 2023 |
| Climate of Mars, past and future: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Edwin Kite |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
March 28, 2023 |
| Postdoc Anna Childs discusses M-dwarfs on SETI Live Broadcast |
Interview |
February 16, 2023 |
| Green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) |
Science Image, Observed Image |
February 10, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Graduate student’s photos of green comet featured in major media outlets |
Science Image |
February 3, 2023 |
| Twelve-Year Exoplanet Timelapse |
Science Video |
January 31, 2023 |
| Ultracool dwarf binary stars break records |
Science Image |
January 17, 2023 |
| Firefly visualization of the ESA Gaia DR3 dataset |
Science Video |
January 10, 2023 |
| Firefly visualization of the ESA Gaia DR3 dataset |
Science Image |
January 10, 2023 |
| CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “Extremely Cool Detectors On a Fireball: Launching the Micro-X Sounding Rocket” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
December 16, 2022 |
| Star Collapses into NEW Black Hole |
Interview |
December 15, 2022 |
| Schwarzschild geodesics for exploring “Zoom-Whirl” Orbits and their gravitational waves |
Interactive |
December 12, 2022 |
| Gemini North image (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| artist’s impression of a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| A broader view of GRB 211211A’s location (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| Gamma-ray burst 211211A (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| Illustration: two neutron stars begin to merge (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| Optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| Artist’s impression of GRB 211211A (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts) |
Science Image |
December 7, 2022 |
| Team with Northwestern astrophysicists competes for $300 million |
Science Image |
November 28, 2022 |
| Short gamma-ray bursts traced farther into distant universe |
Science Image |
November 21, 2022 |
| CIERA’s 13th Annual Public Lecture, “Cassini to Saturn: The Journey and the Legacy” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 8, 2022 |
| A view of GRB221009A from Gemini South in Chile. |
Science Image |
November 7, 2022 |
| A quick jump into space — and back — for pictures of ‘star stuff’ |
Science Image |
September 19, 2022 |
| Northwestern Astronomer Part of Webb Telescope Team to Image Exoplanet |
Interview |
September 16, 2022 |
| Northwestern astrophysicist contributes to Webb’s first exoplanet image |
Science Image, Observed Image |
September 13, 2022 |
| Northwestern University team launches rocket into space after a decade of development |
Interview |
September 9, 2022 |
| Northwestern astrophysicist uses Webb Telescope as ‘time machine’ to trace origins of the universe |
Interview |
September 9, 2022 |
| X-shaped Radio Galaxy Morphology: 3-dimensional movie of density |
Science Video |
September 6, 2022 |
| X-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected |
Science Image |
September 6, 2022 |
| Northwestern’s ‘Micro-X’ rocket to image supernova remnant (b roll) |
Science Video |
August 12, 2022 |
| Northwestern’s ‘Micro-X’ rocket to image supernova remnant |
Science Video |
August 12, 2022 |
| Micro-X rocket |
Science Image |
August 12, 2022 |
| Star Formation Self Regulatory Process |
Science Image |
August 10, 2022 |
| Pillars of Creation in STARFORGE |
Science Video |
August 10, 2022 |
| Fluid Dynamics of Jupiter in the lab: deep jets and floating vortices | Michael Le Bars |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
July 11, 2022 |
| CIERA’s 12th Annual Public Lecture, “Strange New Worlds: Is Earth Special?” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 10, 2021 |
| Fast Radio Bursts Host Galaxies |
Science Image |
June 15, 2021 |
| Afterglow from Neutron Star Merger GW170817 |
Science Image |
June 15, 2021 |
| STARFORGE Simulation: the “Anvil of Creation” |
Science Image |
June 15, 2021 |
| Brainstorm: What stars can tell us about the universe |
Interview |
March 30, 2021 |
| CBS Women’s History Month 2021 |
Interview |
March 24, 2021 |
| Bad Astra Interviews Maya Fishbach |
Interview |
February 25, 2021 |
| SGRB 161104A Environment |
Science Image, Observed Image |
January 26, 2021 |
| Black Hole Accretion Disk |
Science Image |
January 15, 2021 |
| Great Conjunction 2020 |
Science Image, Observed Image |
December 22, 2020 |
| Kilonova Explosions and Magnetars |
Interview |
November 24, 2020 |
| Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family |
Interview |
November 19, 2020 |
| GRB 200522A |
Science Image, Observed Image |
November 12, 2020 |
| LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Discoveries Over Time |
Science Video |
November 4, 2020 |
| Shane Larson’s Virtual Public Lecture, “A Storm of Stars: A Living History of the Milky Way” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 3, 2020 |
| Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Gabriel Casabona |
Interview |
October 16, 2020 |
| Josiah Schwab; Astrophysics Seminar Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 13, 2020 |
| Marla Geha; Astrophysics Seminar Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
September 29, 2020 |
| Relativistic Outflow in GW170817 |
Science Video |
September 9, 2020 |
| Virtual CIERA Tour |
Interview |
September 2, 2020 |
| SN 2019ehk |
Science Image |
August 5, 2020 |
| GRB181123B |
Science Image, Observed Image |
July 14, 2020 |
| SN2019yvq in the Host Galaxy NGC 4441 |
Science Image, Observed Image |
July 14, 2020 |
| SN2016aps |
Science Image |
June 11, 2020 |
| CSS161010’s Host Galaxy |
Science Image, Observed Image |
May 26, 2020 |
| Black Hole Accretion Disc |
Science Image |
March 6, 2020 |
| LIGO and Beyond |
Interview |
February 27, 2020 |
| Shane Larson at TEDxGVSU, “Feeling Small in a Big Cosmos” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
February 24, 2020 |
| CIERA’s 11th Annual Public Lecture, “Cartography of the Cosmos: Mapping the Unseen” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
February 24, 2020 |
| Rho Oph dark cloud observed with HAWC+ |
Science Image, Observed Image |
January 6, 2020 |
| Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 |
Science Image, Observed Image |
December 16, 2019 |
| Image Gets “Starlinked” |
Science Image, Observed Image |
November 18, 2019 |
| Eli Attie; NRT Conference Interview Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 14, 2019 |
| Andrew Connolly; HotWired Public Lecture Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 8, 2019 |
| Giant balloon-like structures discovered at center of Milky Way |
Science Video |
September 12, 2019 |
| Dennis Schatz; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
June 21, 2019 |
| Erik Curiel; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
June 11, 2019 |
| Scott Ransom; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
May 13, 2019 |
| Sean Raymond; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
April 1, 2019 |
| Vicky Kalogera: Encouraging Young Astronomers |
Interview |
March 29, 2019 |
| Stefan Danilishin; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
March 15, 2019 |
| Magnetic Orion |
Science Image, Observed Image |
February 27, 2019 |
| Unveiling the Universe’s Dark Mysteries Through Random Walks – Miaotianzi Jin |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
February 20, 2019 |
| Whispers of the Universe – Eve Chase |
Science Video |
February 20, 2019 |
| Press Conference: “Astronomers Have a Cow” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
February 6, 2019 |
| Katrin Heitmann; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
February 1, 2019 |
| Beth Willman; Interdisciplinary Colloquium Recording |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
January 18, 2019 |
| AT2018cow |
Science Image, Observed Image |
January 10, 2019 |
| “Galactic Bloom” by Zach Hafen and Alex Gurvich |
Science Image |
December 13, 2018 |
| Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Christopher Berry |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 29, 2018 |
| Kavli Fulldome Lecture Series: The Cosmos in a Heartbeat |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 20, 2018 |
| CIERA’s 10th Annual Public Lecture, “The NU Astronomy of Stars, Black Holes, and Cosmic Explosions” |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
November 16, 2018 |
| How Do You Detect a Black Hole? LIGO and the Measurement of Gravitational Waves |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 30, 2018 |
| Vicky Kalogera: Discovering the Sounds of Black Holes |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 30, 2018 |
| TCN Panel on Space: Vicky Kalogera on Gravitational Waves |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 30, 2018 |
| Northwestern University Experts Explain Discovery of Gravitational Waves |
Science Video, Interview |
October 30, 2018 |
| NSF Panel for First Cosmic Event seen in Gravitational Waves and Light |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 30, 2018 |
| Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Globular Clusters |
Science Video |
October 30, 2018 |
| Radio Rebound Powered by Jets from Gamma-Ray Burst |
Science Video |
October 30, 2018 |
| Masses in the Stellar Graveyard |
Science Image |
October 29, 2018 |
| Why is Science Important? |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| When Stars Collide: A Neutron Star Death Spiral |
Science Video |
October 29, 2018 |
| What is LIGO? |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| What do two neutron stars produce when they collide? |
Science Video |
October 29, 2018 |
| What are Short Gamma Ray Bursts? |
Science Video, Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| What are Gravitational Waves? |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| The Signal |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| The Mass Gap Mystery |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| The Application of Basic Science |
Science Video, Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| Science Lecture from Peering into the Cosmic Maelstrom |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 29, 2018 |
| Peering into the Cosmic Maelstrom |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 29, 2018 |
| Panel Discussion from Peering into the Cosmic Maelstrom |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 29, 2018 |
| Optical Telescope Follow-Up |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| Masses in the Stellar Graveyard |
Science Image |
October 29, 2018 |
| Masses in the Stellar Graveyard |
Interactive |
October 29, 2018 |
| Final Flight of a Neutron Star Pair: GW170817 from Birth to Merger in Galaxy NGC 4993 |
Science Video |
October 29, 2018 |
| Final Flight of a Neutron Star Pair |
Interactive |
October 29, 2018 |
| Cosmic Skeletons Dancing in a Stellar Graveyard |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| Binary Neutron Stars |
Interview |
October 29, 2018 |
| Audience Questions from Peering into the Cosmic Maelstrom |
Interview, Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
October 29, 2018 |
| Neutron Star Over Chicago |
Science Image |
October 28, 2018 |
| How many merger binary black holes are there? |
Science Image |
September 12, 2018 |
| Source Galaxies for a Simulated Gravitational-wave Signal |
Science Image |
September 12, 2018 |
| APERTURE Telescope Conceptual Design Animation |
Science Video |
September 5, 2018 |
| BLAST-TNG |
Science Image, Observed Image |
September 4, 2018 |
| Revealing the Lives of Stars Through the Cataclysmic Collisions of Black Holes |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Balloons Above Antarctica: The Coolest Place to Put a Telescope |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Listening for Colliding Black Holes |
Interview |
August 23, 2018 |
| Exploring the Invisible Universe with Computer Simulations |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Exploring the Universe with Virtual Galaxies |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Pulsars in the Snow Globes |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Highlights from Cosmos in Concert |
Science Talks and Other Event Videos |
August 23, 2018 |
| Isolated Disc Galaxy |
Science Video |
August 23, 2018 |
| A Stellar Collision, Ripples In Space-Time, And The Origins Of Gold |
Interview |
August 23, 2018 |
| A 20 Solar Mass Star |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Stellar encounters: Binary+single (exchange and collision) |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Stellar encounters: Triple+binary (collision) |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Stellar encounters: Binary+single (collision) |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Stellar Encounters: Binary+single (exchange) |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| The Late Evolution of Our Solar System |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| A 1 Solar Mass Star |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| A 10 Solar Mass Star |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Neutron Star & White Dwarf Binary |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Evolution of the Color Magnitude Diagram of a Star Cluster |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Density and Temperature Snapshots |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Radiative-hydrodynamic Simulation of a Dusty Cloud Irradiated by a Quasar |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Cataclysmic Variable stars |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Mass Loss Velocity |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| NBC Chicago 2017 Solar Eclipse |
Interview |
August 20, 2018 |
| Gravitational Waves from Illustris1 MBH Mergers |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Gallery of Andromeda Star Clusters |
Science Image, Observed Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Hubble Image Mosaic of Andromeda |
Science Image, Observed Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| When Worlds Collide |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Black Hole Encounter |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Firefly Demonstration |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Galaxy Evolution |
Science Image |
August 20, 2018 |
| Firefly Visualization Platform |
Science Image, Interactive |
August 20, 2018 |
| Stellar Feedback vs. Galaxy Formation |
Science Video |
August 20, 2018 |
| Gas Outflows Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole |
Science Image, Observed Image |
December 1, 2017 |
| One Galaxy, Multiple Perspectives |
Science Image |
December 31, 2016 |
| Black Holes Inside a Globular Cluster |
Science Image |
January 1, 2016 |
| Shredded Star Cluster |
Science Image |
December 26, 2015 |
| Birth of a Solar System |
Science Image |
December 26, 2015 |
| Binary System Mass Transfer |
Science Image |
December 26, 2015 |
