Penn State Alumnus Takes Photos from Mars
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Curiosity rover on rocky surface of Mars

Penn State astronomy graduate takes photos from Mars by controlling NASA's Curiosity rover.

Black holes of all shapes and sizes in new gravitational wave catalog
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Chart of masses of gravitational wave sources

Penn State astronomers in the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have contributed to the largest catalog of gravitational wave events to date.

To the stars: Aerospace engineering students find a home in astrophysics lab
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Baker and McCormick in front of Davey Building
Eberly’s undergraduate research exhibition a success
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Eberly Diversity in STEM Corporate Partners Program logo

Spotlight on student science excellence, Latinx faculty

New podcast tracks the evolution of diverse human traits
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Tracking Traits logo with tree and fingerprint

Several Eberly researchers are featured in the new podcast from the Penn State Center for Human Evolution and Diversity.

Sigurdsson elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society
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Sigurdsson wearing suit against red background

Steinn Sigurdsson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Newly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star
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hot jupiter illustration

A newly discovered planet is moving closer to its star, according to penn state astronomers.

Gamma-rays and neutrinos from mellow supermassive black holes
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A schematic picture of hot accretion flows around a supermassive black hole

Penn State research shows that supermassive black holes, even if they are not so active, can be major factories of gamma rays and neutrinos

Graduate alumna awarded NSF MPS-Ascend Fellowship to work at the SETI Institute
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Sofia Sheikh

Alumna Sofia Sheikh has been awarded an MPS-Ascend Fellowship by the NSF to work at the SETI Institute.

Early, massive galaxies running on empty
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Composite images of six dead galaxies.

An international team discovered six of early, massive “dead" galaxies that stopped making stars during an early period of the universe.

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