Department of Astronomy
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Awards and Honors
David Radice named recipient of DOE Early Career Award
David Radice
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Awards and Honors, Student Stories
Two graduate students recognized for their research by the International Astronomical Union
IAU logo
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Research
Excess neutrinos and missing gamma rays?
Galaxy NGC 1068 with its active black hole shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset
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Research
Penn State-IBM partnership accelerates search for elusive neutrinos
A flaring supermassive black hole 3.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion is the suspected source of a super-high-energy subatomic particle -- a neutrino -- that has launched a new era of space research. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State
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Awards and Honors, Research
Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center researcher Jason Wright awarded NASA grant to look for signatures of alien technology
Illustration of planets orbiting a star
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Research
Black hole or neutron star?
Artist's impression of mysterious astonomical object detected by LIGO
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Awards and Honors
ICDS awards computational and data sciences seed grants to Eberly researchers
diagram for ICDS seed grants
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Science Journal, Winter 2020
Astronomy is better with better statistics
Left to right: Eric Ford, Eric Feigelson, Hyungsuk Tak, Jogesh Babu. Credit: Nate Follmer.
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Science Journal, Winter 2020, Student Stories
Data science opens doors
Danley Hsu
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Science Journal, Winter 2020
Eberly faculty support enthusiastic teachers
Teachers Keith Saroka, Valerie Knaver, and Lenny Barsody show a Sloan Digital Sky Survey plug plate. It is a surplus aluminum plate from the Apache Point Observatory that was used to help gather spectra from a specific set of astronomical objects.
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Awards and Honors, Science Journal, Winter 2020
Five Penn State researchers awarded grants by Kaufman Foundation
Shandera, Jeong, Hanna headshots
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Research
New type of pulsating star discovered
tear-drop pulsar with companion star
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