This Exoplanet is in a Death Dance with its Star
Planets tend to suffer the consequences as the stars they orbit go through different phases. And in about three million years, the exoplanet known...
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An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light
“That’s thanks to a new light-squeezing instrument that researchers installed in the experiment’s main machine: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Its Italian counterpart, Virgo,...
First Discoveries by the Young Supernova Experiment
The Northwestern-based YSE team is excited to announce the start of the Young Supernova Experiment, a new transient discovery survey using the Pan-STARRS1...
Faucher-Giguère Named Highly Cited Researcher
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère was named a Highly Cited Researcher in Space Science for 2019. This distinction, based on an analysis by the Web of...
Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers From Star Clusters Much Lower than Previously Thought
A group of theoretical and observational astronomers from CIERA, Harvard, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have found that the rates...
CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh Named AAAS Fellows
“Five Northwestern University faculty members have been elected 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general...
CIERA Observer’s Image Gets “Starlinked”
On November 18, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Cliff Johnson and his collaborator Clara Martínez-Vázquez were hoping to observe stars in a pair of nearby...
“‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable”
“…“For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Northwestern’s Howard...
Supercomputer Award Granted to CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, was granted the highly-competitive 2020 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...
CIERA Graduate Student Zachary Hafen Featured by Northwestern TGS
“Be willing to give a chance to stuff that seems boring at first. The depth may astound you once you get through the beginning.”...
“A star has been flickering for years – and researchers think they’ve figured out why”
“(Inside Science) — In 2015, astronomers noticed that a star named KIC 8462852 was flickering unusually. Some researchers suggested that the observations could potentially...
Priya Natarajan Presents 12th Annual CIERA Public Lecture
CIERA’s 12th annual public lecture was presented by award-winning author and Yale professor Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan at Cahn Auditorium on October 24. Natarajan...