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...
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‘Oddball supernova’ appears strangely cool before exploding
Banner image: An artistic impression of a blue companion star stripping hydrogen from a yellow supergiant. Credit: Kavli IPMU/Aya Tsuboi A curiously yellow star...
Gamma-Ray Burst Studied by CIERA Astronomers Challenges Traditional Classification of GRBs
Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have long since questioned the nature of the universe and the origin of many compelling extraterrestrial...
Vicky Kalogera Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John...
Prof. Fong Receives NSF Honor for Young Faculty
Professor Wen-fai Fong has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for...
Welcome New CIERA Postdoctoral Researchers
We are pleased to announce the following postdoctoral researchers joining CIERA this summer and fall, 2021. Welcome! CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard) joins...
New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
In 2018, astronomers were shocked to find a bizarre explosion in a galaxy 200 million light-years away. It wasn’t like any normal supernova seen...
CIERA Astronomy LIVE Debuts on YouTube
On January 29, 2021, CIERA debuted its new public outreach event CIERA Astronomy LIVE to an audience of about 45 people. The YouTube live...
Rare Short Gamma-ray Burst Discovered in Galaxy Cluster
New evidence helps astronomers learn about SGRB ancestors Banner image: The surrounding environment of SGRB 161104A, which includes a galaxy cluster. Image taken by...
Growing Library of Educational Brochures by CIERA Astronomers
A new educational brochure series has debuted from CIERA, highlighting various topics in astrophysics research at Northwestern. The brochures are written in publicly accessible...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet
This fall, we are excited to welcome Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet to CIERA as two new astrophysics faculty members. Ryan Chornock joins as...
4th Award of LSSTC Enabling Science Grant to CIERA’s Aaron Geller
For the fourth year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), to...