Two previously invisible galaxies completely hidden by clouds of cosmic gas and dust discovered using ALMA
Uncovering galaxies buried in dust at the cosmic dawn
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Shandera appointed director of Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
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Penn State astrophysicist to lead $5.8 million NASA CubeSat mission
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Penn State led Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT), an X-ray CubeSat telescope, chosen by NASA to be funded for $5.8 million
NASA approves $4 million in funding for Penn State led ATHENA consortium
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NASA approves $4 million in funding for Penn State led contributions to the European Space Agency's Athena X-ray observatory.
Graduate alumnus receives Robert J. Trumpler Award
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Alumnus Gudmundur Kari Stefansson honored with the 2020 Robert J. Trumpler Award by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Astrophysicists, Social Scientists to Probe the Universe’s Deepest Mysteries
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A new fellowship program will support early career scientists at institutions like Penn State to study data from the Vera Rubin Observatory.
$3.4 million NSF grant aims to make LIGO multimessenger discoveries commonplace
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A new NSF grant to LIGO will support development of software and services to discover gravitational waves in real time.
New multi-institution hub to explore nuclear physics and cosmic mergers
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A new nuclear physics center that includes Penn State researchers will explore the cosmic mergers of neutron stars and hot dense matter.
Miguel Mostafá appointed director of the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics
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Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics has appointed Miguel Mostafá, professor of Physics and of Astronomy, as Director.
First detection of light echoes from behind a black hole
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Researchers report the first-ever recordings of X-ray emission from the far side of a black hole.