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Eberly College of Science Blogs
In Focus
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI
Seth Palmer
Are We Alone in the Universe?
SETI scientists at Penn State are searching for the answer
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, used by Alex Wolszczan in his co-discovery of the first exoplanets in 1992. Credit: NAIC Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF
Seth Palmer
Worlds Beyond
The extraordinary revolution of exoplanet science
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way. Credit: NASA/STScI
Seth Palmer
A Several-Century Scientific Syzygy
Multimessenger astronomy's phenomenal history
psu nittany lion shrine
Seth Palmer
A Note to Our Readers
This blog is a curated collection of posts intended to highlight selected research of interest in our college, presented in the broader context of history and current scientific trends.