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Beverly Lowell Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second-year CIERA graduate student Beverly Lowell was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship for the upcoming year and received...
Danat Issa Awarded Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for...
The Sky is No Limit
New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home...
CIERA REU Students Present at 235th Meeting of the AAS
Students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and the LSSTC Enabling Science program presented their research projects at...
Using Gravitational Waves to See Inside Stars
Astronomers have predicted how to look inside stars using gravitational waves, allowing researchers to determine the structure of stars using this...
An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light
“That’s thanks to a new light-squeezing instrument that researchers installed in the experiment’s main machine: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Its...
“Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions”
“The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written....
Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international...
“Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead star”
“Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August 14, the resulting...
SAGUARO: Using Arizona Telescopes to Observe the Most Dramatic Collisions in Space
Throughout the world, new developments are being made in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, with groups of scientists utilizing new...