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...
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CIERA’s Erin Cox Wins NRAO Dissertation Award
Postdoctoral Associate Erin Cox has won the Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, administered by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio...
CIERA Astronomers Use Machine Learning to Classify 1.5 Billion Astronomical Sources
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new experiment attempting to identify everything that changes in the Northern night sky. ZTF measures these changes...
Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for First Time
“A Northwestern University-led international team is getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer. On...
CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti Group Research Featured in Nature Magazine
“For many astronomers, 2018 will be remembered as the Year of the Cow — after the nickname of a spectacular stellar explosion that has...
Astronomers Witness Birth of New Star from Stellar Explosion
“The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host galaxies. They take months or years to fade away,...
Profs. Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti and Team Create First-ever Movie of Gamma-ray Burst
“Astronomers using telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) studied a cataclysmic stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst,...
Seven New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge research...
Computational Research Day: April 10, 2018
Computational Research Day is an annual all-day symposium which brings together Northwestern students, faculty, and researchers across fields and disciplines to share and promote...
Astronomy from the Stratosphere: New Research by CIERA Postdoc Fabio Santos
Understanding how stars and planets are created is one of the main challenges of modern astronomy. The study of stellar birth is one of...
Professor Yusef-Zadeh: Infant Stars Surprisingly Near Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and...
Unique Supernova Revealed by CIERA Postdoc Giacomo Terreran
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, CIERA postdoctoral associate Giacomo Terreran discusses a highly unusual supernova. The object, called OGLE14-073, is more...