Department of Astronomy
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Awards and Honors
Eric Hudson named 2021 Penn State Teaching Fellow
Eric Hudson
Awards and Honors
Julia Kregenow receives 2021 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching
Kregenow teaches astronomy class at Bryce Jordan Center
Awards and Honors
Chad Hanna receives 2021 Faculty Scholar Medal
Chad Hanna.
Science Journal, Winter 2021
Guest Editor - Winter 2021
Don Schneider Science Journal Winter 2021 guest editor.
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021
The Disks That Make Solar Systems Flat
A newly formed star surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk.
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021
HETDEX and the ‘Quest for the Rest’
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021, Student Stories
Detail in the Debris
Jiayin Dong from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal
Science Journal, Winter 2021
Improving Analysis of Astronomy Data
Ian Czekala for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021
Person to Person: Caryl Gronwall
Caryl Gronwall featured image for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021
Can We Detect Binary Supermassive Black Holes?
Michael Eracleous
Awards and Honors, Science Journal, Winter 2021
New Faculty - Winter 2021
Lion Shrine
Research
IceCube telescope spots first-ever ultra-high-energy antineutrino directly observed on Earth
Path of cosmic neutrino to Earth