
Supernova News from CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl...
Roger Anderson for Northwestern Research News writes: Figuring out how to fit a 16-meter mirror into a four-meter hole was the easy part. Two...
Graduate student Katie Breivik’s work has been featured on the site AASNova.org, which highlights some of the most interesting recent results being published in the...
In mid-August, CIERA welcomed ten researchers from a variety of institutions for a three-day bootcamp for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic...
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...
In a new study, CIERA astrophysics show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of two massive black holes detected Sept....
An infrared camera called the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus (HAWC+) was installed on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, this spring. This is...
Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and physicist, is giving $3 million as a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to honor the...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel will be leaving Chicago for Virginia next year, as one of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO’s) Jansky fellows....
On February 11, 2016 the National Science Foundation and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that their scientists successfully, for the first time, directly...
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...