New Faculty - Winter 2021
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John Mather
IceCube telescope spots first-ever ultra-high-energy antineutrino directly observed on Earth
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Path of cosmic neutrino to Earth

IceCube has directly observed an ultra-high-energy cosmic antineutrino for the first time on Earth.

Eberly Impact: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope
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Eberly 30th anniversary stamp
Dawson honored with Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
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Rebekah Dawson
Balloon mission chosen for NASA Pioneers program
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Stephanie Wissel
IceCube Collaboration awarded 2021 Rossi Prize by American Astronomical Society
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Rossi Prize graphic

The international IceCube Collaboration, which includes several Penn State researchers, has been recognized with the 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize.

Three Penn State researchers awarded New Initiative grants from Kaufman Foundation
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Mikael Rechtsman, Randall McEntaffer, Lauren Zarzar
Recurring ‘Weather World’ segment takes viewers to space, beyond
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Neese and Palma on Weather World set

Penn State astronomer Chris Palma has participated on Penn State’s “Weather World" segment for almost a decade.

Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment survey begins full operations
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope at dusk
Astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
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many planetary systems

A new study helps explain some of the intriguing questions about exoplanets raised by the Kepler space telescope.

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