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 “Northwestern astronomers have...
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Cosmic ‘candy cane’ spotted in inner Milky Way
“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...
Faucher-Giguère Named Highly Cited Researcher
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...
CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh Named AAAS Fellows
“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...
“‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable”
“…“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...
Supercomputer Award Granted to CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy
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...
CIERA Graduate Student Zachary Hafen Featured by Northwestern TGS
“Be willing to give a chance to stuff that seems boring at first. The depth may astound you once you get through the beginning.”...
“Giant balloon-like structures discovered at center of Milky Way”
“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...
“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. After the extremely...
Northwestern Leads Effort to Detect New Types of Cosmic Events
“A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next evolution. The W. M. Keck Foundation...
Fred Rasio Receives 2019 Brouwer Award
“Northwestern University theoretical astrophysicist Fred Rasio has received the 2019 Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA). The annual award...
“Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst”
“An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion. This explosive event (known as gamma-ray burst...