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Modeling Dense Star Clusters: The non-traditional laboratory of an Astrophysicist

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Modeling Dense Star Clusters: The non-traditional laboratory of an Astrophysicist

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Meagan Morscher presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on

Northwestern's RSG Program

What Are Other Worlds Like

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What Are Other Worlds Like

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Sam Hadden presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on

Northwestern's RSG Program

Whispers from the stellar graveyard

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Whispers from the stellar graveyard

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Katie Brevik presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on

Northwestern's RSG Program

Solar System Symphony

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Solar System Symphony

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Kyle Kremer presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on

Northwestern's RSG Program

Baloons Above Antarctica: The Coolest Place to Put a Telescope

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Baloons Above Antarctica: The Coolest Place to Put a Telescope

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Paul Williams presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on

Northwestern's RSG Program

Bad Astra Interviews Maya Fishbach

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Bad Astra Interviews Maya Fishbach

Maya Fishbach uses gravitational waves to probe the universe’s most extreme objects — black holes and neutron stars. Her research aims to understand where, when and how these systems of merging compact objects are made. As a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, she analyzes gravitational-wave data to study the population properties of colliding black

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Black Hole Accretion Disk

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Black Hole Accretion Disk

The massive black hole in M33 X-7 is hidden in the X-ray bright center of the pancake-like accretion disk of matter. The black-hole’s hot (blue) and massive star companion is losing mass in a wind that gets pulled and captured by the black hole. Learn more. 

NU Viz and CIERA: Matthew McCrory, Francesca Valsecchi, and Vicky Kalogera

Great Conjunction 2020

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Great Conjunction 2020

PhD student Newlin Weatherford, who holds the Riedel Family Graduate Fellowship at CIERA, captured the Great Conjunction (“Christmas Star”) of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21, 2020 at 6:20 pm PT from Novato, California. Using his Panasonic DZ1000, Newlin wasn’t able to resolve Saturn’s rings, but we can see Callisto and Io and many faint

Newlin Weatherford, Northwestern CIERA

Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family

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Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family

From Purdue University’s Long Tales of Science podcast, hear CIERA’s Dr. Sarah Wellons, an astrophysicist who uses high performance computing resources to run massive simulations of galaxy formation, and her mother, Dr. Helen Wellons, a retired chemical engineer who used parallel computing to deploy computational modeling applications to optimize real-time refinery operations at ExxonMobil.

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