16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, revealing stellar missing link
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blue ring nebula

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the blue ring nebula.

Q&A with the Penn State LIGO group
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Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL
Next-generation astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos
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starfield and two panels of graphs

The fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey collected its first data on Oct 24, 2020.

The recipe for powerful quasar jets
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Illusttration of supermassive black hole with coronoa and jets
To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium
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view of Earth from space

The new Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology will research focus efforts at Penn State.

Rebekah Dawson honored with Shaffer Career Development Professorship in Science
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Rebekah Dawson

Rebekah Dawson has been named the Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science.

Nobel winner Penrose has long-standing ties to Penn State
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Roger Penrose

Nobel prize winner Sir Robert Penrose has ties to the Eberly College of Science.

Grant to help researchers augment their teams with computational experts
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Menéndez and O'Brien at computer

A new NSF grant will can help researchers across Penn State augment their investigations with experts in computational science.

McEntaffer and Reimann named Teaching and Learning with Technology faculty fellows
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new TLT cohort headshots

Randy McEntaffer and Jan Reimann will each focus on student engagement as TLT faculty fellows.

Penn State a partner in new NSF Physics Frontier Center
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This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole.

The center will bring together researchers from 13 institutions to focus on neutron star modeling in the ‘Gravitational Wave Era’

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