REACH 2023 sessions see highest attendance to date
Research Experiences in Astronomy at CIERA for High School Students (REACH), a highly interactive, 3-week program (with an optional 3-week extension) offers high school...
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21 undergraduates conduct summer research with REU and ISG
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) 2023 This summer, CIERA hosted 15 undergraduate students from 12 different institutions as a part of the Research Experiences...
Black holes eat faster than previously expected
New finding might explain why quasars flare and fade so quickly A new Northwestern University-led study is changing the way astrophysicists understand the eating...
Astronomer Evenings continue strong in 2023
On the last Friday of each month, Dearborn Observatory is open to anyone to come in, meet, and interact with CIERA researchers and students....
CIERA hosts inaugural Astro Imaging Workshop
On Monday, July 31, approximately 30 experts in image processing and astronomy gathered at Northwestern for the inaugural Astro Imaging Workshop. Hosted by CIERA...
Graduate students hold astronomy workshop series for local educators
Over the past spring and summer, Chicago-area teachers learned about various astronomical topics and connected with fellow educators in the community through a series...
Unprecedented gamma-ray burst explained by long-lived jet
First large-scale numerical simulation of black hole-neutron star merger matches puzzling observations Last year, Northwestern University researchers uncovered new observational evidence that long gamma-ray...
Prof Wen-fai Fong Named AT&T Research Fellow
On July 31, 2023, CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong was selected as an AT&T Research Fellow by Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. This...
Watch an exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star
Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of...
Code/Astro workshop brings together programmers from around the world
From July 10 to July 14, 2023 49 in-person and 38 remote participants from around the world attended the 4th annual Code/Astro workshop, a...
Gravity Spy research paper wins prestigious Spanish data science award
Our interdisciplinary Citizen Science work is making international waves. On July 3, 2023, the BBVA Foundation’s Statistics and Operations Research Society awarded Northwestern researchers...
Listen to a star ‘twinkle’
New study is first to determine how much stars should innately twinkle Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends...