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...
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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...
Professor Wen-fai Fong Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
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...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Member Adam Miller
This fall, we are excited to welcome Adam Miller to CIERA as a new astrophysics faculty member. Adam Miller joins as an Assistant Professor...
Intense radio blasts traced to galaxies’ spiral arms
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...
Stunning simulation of stars being born is most realistic ever
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...