AstroFest set for four-night run July 10-13
AstroFest
Eberly College of Science announces two new associate deans for undergraduate education
williams palma
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Science and serendipity
cody messick

Person-to-person with Cody Messick.

Toward Cosmic Insight
Computer-generated image of the Swift Observatory satellite.
Science Achievement Graduate Fellows
Fellowship namesake scientist inspiring the fellowship names for each department.
LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-Ups
Illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
First ever open public alerts from LIGO: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated
LIGO Laboratory operates two detector sites, one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. This photo shows the Hanford detector site. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab
A new signal for a neutron star collision discovered
A bright burst of X-rays discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory likely signals the merger of two neutron stars— dense stellar objects packed mainly with neutrons. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Science and Technology of China/Y. Xue et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
Friedman Lecture in Astronomy set for April 9
Randall McEntaffer
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