NASA Einstein Postdoc Kate Alexander Named to Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties”
CIERA researcher Kate Alexander is featured in Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties” for 2020. She earned a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard...
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A Supernova that Outshines All Others
A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international...
Danat Issa Awarded Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students...
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...
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...
First Discoveries by the Young Supernova Experiment
The Northwestern-based YSE team is excited to announce the start of the Young Supernova Experiment, a new transient discovery survey using the Pan-STARRS1...
“A star has been flickering for years – and researchers think they’ve figured out why”
“(Inside Science) — In 2015, astronomers noticed that a star named KIC 8462852 was flickering unusually. Some researchers suggested that the observations could potentially...
Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with...
20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the...
CIERA’s Erin Cox Wins NRAO Dissertation Award
Postdoctoral Associate Erin Cox has won the Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, administered by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio...
CIERA Astronomers Use Machine Learning to Classify 1.5 Billion Astronomical Sources
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new experiment attempting to identify everything that changes in the Northern night sky. ZTF measures these changes...
Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for First Time
“A Northwestern University-led international team is getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer. On...