CIERA Astronomers Travel to Mexico to Install TolTEC Camera
Last November, the Chicagoland area prepared for a cold winter as CIERA astronomers Dennis Lee, Giles Novak and Marc Berthoud traveled off to warmer...
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Monica Gallegos Garcia Selected for 2022 Bouchet Honor Society
CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia has been selected as a 2022 Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee, a cohort organized by The...
Ariadna Murguia Berthier Top 3 Finalist for AAS HEAD Dissertation Prize
Ariadna Murguia Berthier, NASA Hubble Fellow at CIERA, was selected as one of three finalists for the 2022 HEAD Dissertation Prize! The HEAD Dissertation...
CIERA High School Researcher is Regeneron National Science Talent Search Grand Prize Winner
High school student Christine Ye, who has been conducting research with NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow Maya Fishbach since Fall 2020, has been named the...
Kilonova afterglow potentially spotted for first time
Strange ‘sonic boom’ accompanied unprecedented event For the first time, Northwestern University-led astronomers may have detected an afterglow from a kilonova. A kilonova occurs...
Conference in snowy Aspen brings astrophysicists together
Aspen Winter Conference 2022 Exploring the wonders that lie beyond our planet requires a beautifully collaborative effort; a creative process undertaken by communities of...
High School Student and CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Mentor Publish Star Formation Simulation Research
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Mike Grudić (2019-2021) and Associate Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère help Philadelphia High Schooler publish their first professional research paper. Henry Lane never imagined he’d be...
Wen-fai Fong named Sloan Research Fellow
Young researchers ‘represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow’ Six Northwestern faculty members representing three schools have been awarded a prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from...
Wen-fai Fong receives Cottrell Scholar Award
Fong will use teacher-scholar award to study the origins of fast radio bursts Northwestern University astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong has received a 2022 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research...
Nearly 1,000 mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
Image Credit: Northwestern University/SARAO/Oxford University ‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky...
Astronomers capture red supergiant’s death throes
‘For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,’ researcher says Astronomers previously believed that red supergiant stars fell dormant at the...
Looking forward to a huge leap in space exploration
Northwestern astronomer Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discusses his fortune in having time on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched into space this month...