Attendees Cheer at Partial Solar Eclipse Event on October 23rd, 2014
People from all over northern Chicago joined Northwestern students, staff, and professors to persevere through an hour of cool, cloudy weather, waiting for October...
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CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Geller & Hicks Win Awards for “Capturing the Beauty of Science”
Every year, Northwestern University’s Science in Society holds a competition to find the most beautiful science images from researchers all over campus. This year, that contest...
CIERA Postdoc Francesca Valsecchi and Colleagues Link Hot Super-Earths to Hot Jupiters
When astronomers started discovering planets around other stars, one of the biggest surprises was the discovery of many Jupiter-sized gas-giant planets orbiting extremely close...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Celebrates Major Instrument Milestone
The fifth issue of LIGO Magazine is now available for download. This issue celebrates the major milestone of the first full lock being achieved. It...
Experts on X-Ray Optics Meet at Northwestern, Discuss Next-Generation Space Telescopes
On Friday, August 22nd, CIERA hosted a meeting of some of the country’s leading experts in fabricating X-ray mirrors for space-based X-ray telescopes. Organized...
National Science Foundation Agrees to Fund LSST Project
The National Science Foundation (NSF) agreed on Friday, August 1st, to fund the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in constructing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),...
CIERA Hosts Galaxy Formation Workshop
On July 24-26, CIERA hosted a workshop for the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) galaxy formation simulation project. This workshop, organized by Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, brought together...
The Science that Shared Buzz Aldrin’s Space Selfie
This week, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed to CNN that he had one more first under his belt: he took the first ever space...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Called In As Expert On “Cityhenge”
Research Associate Professor Shane Larson was quoted in USA Today’s July 7 article about “Cityhenge”, a phenomena where the sun lines up with the grid system of...
CIERA Postdoc Explores Black Holes in BBC Magazine Feature
CIERA postdoc Daryl Haggard’s research about the growth of supermassive black holes is featured in the July 2014 issue of BBC’s Sky at Night Magazine, scheduled...
Paper Co-Authored by Ben Farr and Former CIERA Members Reviewed on Astrobites
A recent paper co-authored by Ben Farr (CIERA Graduate Student), Will Farr (former CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow) and Ilya Mandel (former member of Vicky Kalogera’s...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Daryl Haggard Featured in Physics Central Podcast
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Daryl Haggard was interviewed along with Andrea Ghez and Stefan Gillessen for a Physics Central podcast. The podcast, titled Hungry Hungry Black Holes, talks about the black hole at...