At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), REU Student Claire Zwicker was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, Honorable Mention....
Large and complex data sets are often filled with hidden gems waiting to be discovered. In a joint venture with Northwestern IT’s Research...
Six years after the inaugural meeting, Northwestern hosted the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program for the third time the week of September 20th. With...
Astronomy PhD student Alex Gurvich was recently named a winner of Northwestern’s 2022 Data Visualization contest. Honored for his video simulation of a galaxy...
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...
Credit: Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53. Galaxies’ spiral arms are responsible for scooping up gas to feed to their central supermassive black...
Image credit: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA Just as an enormous influx of big data is poised to transform the field of astronomy and astrophysics, a new...
A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation of star formation to date. The result is a visually...
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy has been granted a 2021 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award for his proposal, “Simulating Collapsar...
The Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for...
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students...
CIERA staff, Board of Visitors, and graduate students organized a visit to Dearborn Observatory on the Northwestern University campus for children in the Off...
