“A Halo for Andromeda” Credit: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale and E. Wheatley (STScI) and Z. Levay Northwestern professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère and recent PhD graduate...
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno, and the SXS Collaboration...
The Milky Way Galaxy seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman A group...
This summer, CIERA hosted 11 undergraduate students as a part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Adjusted for a remote experience, the...
The CIERA High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy at Northwestern provided an interactive, hands-on astronomy research experience for high school students remotely this...
For the fourth year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), to...
Unprecedented observations shine light on a compact star’s final moments Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material...
Event also could give insight into dark energy and the creation of iron Composite image of SN2019yvq (blue dot) in the host galaxy NGC...
Image Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Paterson & W. Fong (Northwestern University) The farther away an object lies in the universe, the fainter it appears...
Image Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In August of 2019, the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network witnessed the merger of a black hole with 23 times the...
Kristopher Mortensen, a 2020 graduate from Weinberg in Physics & Astronomy, was recognized with an Outstanding Thesis Research Undergraduate Award from the Undergraduate Curriculum...
Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy Aggarwal has won the 2019 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for her thesis “A room temperature optomechanical squeezer.” Nancy received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts...
