The Sky is No Limit
New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home “Northwestern astronomers have...
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CIERA REU Students Present at 235th Meeting of the AAS
Students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and the LSSTC Enabling Science program presented their research projects at the 235th American...
Using Gravitational Waves to See Inside Stars
Astronomers have predicted how to look inside stars using gravitational waves, allowing researchers to determine the structure of stars using this new method of...
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,...
“Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions”
“The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written. After the extremely...
Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with...
“Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead star”
“Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August 14, the resulting ripples in the...
SAGUARO: Using Arizona Telescopes to Observe the Most Dramatic Collisions in Space
Throughout the world, new developments are being made in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, with groups of scientists utilizing new technologies to reveal...
20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the...
Northwestern Leads Effort to Detect New Types of Cosmic Events
“A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next evolution. The W. M. Keck Foundation...
Aprajita Hajela Wins NASA Future Investigator Award
For a dozen years, the four science divisions (Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have supported graduate student-initiated...
Monica Gallegos Garcia Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, administered by...