Alumni Spotlight: Windsor Morgan
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Windsor “Tony” Morgan instructs students in an undergraduate physics lab at Dickinson College. Photo provided courtesy of Dickinson College.

Professor and Eberly alumnus Windsor Morgan champions education, outreach, and DEI at Dickinson College

A Brief History, Honoring Two Pioneers of Penn State Astronomy
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Protective domes cover the telescopes at Davey Lab’s rooftop observatory, Penn State University Park. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State.

Henry Yeagley and Carl Bauer were instrumental in shaping the past, present, and future of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Making their mark on SETI
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Logo of the 2021 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus.

The PSETI Center breaks new ground with a conference for early career researchers, the 2021 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus.

​​Nearby star could help explain why our Sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
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11 images of the sun with sunspots Credit: NASA

A sun-like star could explain why our Sun stopped its sunspot cycles 300 years ago during the Maunder Minimum, according to Penn State.

The Unfolding Story of a Kilonova Told in X-rays
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illustration of kilonova

Astronomers may have discovered a kilonova—a powerful event that occur when two neutron stars merge.

Radice awarded 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
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David Radice

David Radice, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, has been awarded the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Stephanie Wissel named Downsbrough Early Career Professor of Physics
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Stephanie Wissel

Stephanie Wissel has been honored with the Downsbrough Early Career Professorship in Physics at Penn State.

Coronal rain on a cold star?
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Solar flare with coronal rain on the Sun

Observations of a stellar flare with Penn State's Habitable-zone Planet Finder could be the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool M-dwarf

A Mars-sized planet orbiting extremely close to its host star
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Artists depiction showing comparison of KOI-4777 to Earth-Sun

Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star validated as a planet using the Penn State Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Quasars, Black Holes, and a Cosmological Conundrum
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Yuexing Li, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics

A quest for the origin of the most-distant quasars in the early universe

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