Wright named recipient of SETI Institute's 2019 Drake Award
Jason Wright
Penn State exoplanet center celebrates 10-year anniversary
Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
Alumni gifts to fund Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center
Penn State graduate John Patton and his wife, Natalie, have committed a future gift to establish the “John and Natalie Patton Family Research Fund in PSETI.” Credit: Penn State
"The Universe Beyond Einstein: Lessons from Primordial Messengers" a free public lecture on February 23
Iván Agulló
Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars
The new Penn State-led Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars. Pictured: The HPF instrument during installation in its clean-room enclosure in the Hobby Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Photo Credit: Guðmundur Stefánssonn, Penn State.
"The Ghost Particle: A new tool for deep-space discoveries" a free public lecture on February 16
Doug Cowen
"Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves" a free public lecture on February 9
Nobel Laureate Barry C. Barish
"The Quantum Universe in the Planck Era and Beyond" a free public lecture on February 2
J. Richard Bond
"Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Story" a free lecture for the public on January 26
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpy
Illustration of a high-mass X-ray binary system made up of a compact, incredibly dense neutron star paired with a massive normal supergiant star. New data from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the neutron star in the high-mass X-ray binary, OAO 1657-415, passed through a dense patch of stellar wind from its companion star, demonstrating the clumpy nature of stellar winds. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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