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16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, revealing stellar missing link

blue ring nebula

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Q&A with the Penn State LIGO group

Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL

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Worlds Beyond

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

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Next-generation astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos

starfield and two panels of graphs

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The recipe for powerful quasar jets

Illusttration of supermassive black hole with coronoa and jets

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To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium

view of Earth from space

Awards and Honors

Rebekah Dawson honored with Shaffer Career Development Professorship in Science

Rebekah Dawson

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A Several-Century Scientific Syzygy

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way. Credit: NASA/STScI

Awards and Honors

Nobel winner Penrose has long-standing ties to Penn State

Roger Penrose

Awards and Honors

Grant to help researchers augment their teams with computational experts

Menéndez and O'Brien at computer

Awards and Honors

McEntaffer and Reimann named Teaching and Learning with Technology faculty fellows

new TLT cohort headshots

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Penn State a partner in new NSF Physics Frontier Center

This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole.