Wandering star disrupts stellar nursery
Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when...
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CIERA’S Inaugural Astronomy Night Out
On Friday April 22, CIERA held its first Astronomy Night Out event for Northwestern students and local Evanston residents. The event, attended by 65...
Tarraneh Eftekhari Named NASA Einstein Fellow
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Tarraneh Eftekhari has been named a NASA Einstein Fellow! This NASA fellowship enables Eftekhari, along with 23 other postdoctoral scientists out...
Erin Cox Awarded NSF MPS-Ascend Fellowship
CIERA Postdoctoral Associate Erin Cox has been awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending (MPS-Ascend ) Postdoctoral Fellowship! The fellowship will provide...
Dying Stars’ Cocoons Might Explain Fast Blue Optical Transients
Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational and theoretical astrophysicists. So...
Five New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises...
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...
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...
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...
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...