REACH Continues to Grow!
The Research Experiences in Astronomy at CIERA for High School students provided an interactive, hands-on astronomy research experience for high school students remotely this...
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Another Successful CIERA REU Program in the Books!
This summer, CIERA hosted 15 undergraduate students as a part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Heading into a second year of...
Did a black hole eating a star generate a neutrino? Unlikely, new study shows
In October 2019, a high-energy neutrino slammed into Antarctica. The neutrino, which was remarkably hard to detect, piqued astronomers’ interest: what could generate such...
Professor Wen-fai Fong Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong has received a 2021 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant...
Luke Kelley Awarded Cottrell Fellowship
The Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, with support from the National Science Foundation, recently announced that CIERA’s Lindheimer Postdoctoral Fellow Luke Zoltan Kelley has...
CIERA Members Win 2nd Place for JSPG Policy Position Paper
Image Credit: Celeste Hay Kaylee Henry, Ranya Virk, Lindsay DeMarchi, and Huei Sears won second place in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance and the American...
New simulation shows how galaxies feed their supermassive black holes
Credit: Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53. Galaxies’ spiral arms are responsible for scooping up gas to feed to their central supermassive black...
Social scientists, astrophysicists to probe the Universe’s deepest mysteries
Image credit: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA Just as an enormous influx of big data is poised to transform the field of astronomy and astrophysics, a new...
Astrophysicists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers
Image credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne (“Rainbow Swirl Refracted” is an artistic image inspired by a Black Hole Neutron Star merger event) A long time...
Intense radio blasts traced to galaxies’ spiral arms
Using deep-space imaging from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered that some peculiar, short-lived phenomena have an even more...
Postdoctoral Fellow Mike Grudić Awarded NASA Hubble Fellowship
NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA’s pursuit...
Stunning simulation of stars being born is most realistic ever
A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation of star formation to date. The result is a visually...