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...
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...
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...
‘For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,’ researcher says Astronomers previously believed that red supergiant stars fell dormant at the...
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...
Largest catalog ever assembled, detailing 35 events, released today An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has released the largest-ever catalog of...
CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong has received a 2021 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant...
Image Credit: Celeste Hay Kaylee Henry, Ranya Virk, Lindsay DeMarchi, and Huei Sears won second place in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance and the American...
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...
Image credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne (“Rainbow Swirl Refracted” is an artistic image inspired by a Black Hole Neutron Star merger event) A long time...
Using deep-space imaging from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered that some peculiar, short-lived phenomena have an even more...
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...