Astrophysicists Capture New Class of Transient Objects
Artist’s illustration comparing FBOTs to normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF ‘A new beast is out there,’ researcher says of object...
Artist’s illustration comparing FBOTs to normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF ‘A new beast is out there,’ researcher says of object...
As part of their Virtual Earth Month celebration, each week sustainNU will highlight two new research projects on biology, climate, history, nature, social sciences,...
Congratulations to CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Margutti studies...
New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home “Northwestern astronomers have...
“A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image of our Milky Way galaxy’s central zone. But this...
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère was named a Highly Cited Researcher in Space Science for 2019. This distinction, based on an analysis by the Web of...
“Five Northwestern University faculty members have been elected 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general...
“…“For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Northwestern’s Howard...
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, was granted the highly-competitive 2020 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...
“Be willing to give a chance to stuff that seems boring at first. The depth may astound you once you get through the beginning.”...
“An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, has discovered one of the largest structures ever observed in the Milky Way. A newly...
“The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written. After the extremely...