AstroFest to celebrate 25-year anniversary
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Davey Lab roof

The Penn State Eberly College of Science’s popular AstroFest program will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year.

Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
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collage of three cosmic objects detected by the James Webb Space Telescope

Events

What happens when neutron stars collide?
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Volume rendering of simulation of two neutron stars merging.

New simulations show that neutrinos created during binary neutron star mergers are briefly out of equilibrium with the star's cold cores

Using machine learning, modeling to detect Earth-like planets
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Eric Ford in front of the CyberLamp cluster
Astronomers find unexpected accelerating quasar winds around distant black hole
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Illustration of supermassive black hole with quasar wind, with inset spectra.

Astronomers have used eight years of SDSS observations to discover unexpected changes in the winds surrounding a distant black hole.

How do supermassive black holes get super massive?
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Combined X-ray and optical observations on left and simulated gas column density on right, with inset of artist's impression of active supermassive black hole

Astronomers combine X-ray observations with supercomputer simulations to provide best modeling of the growth of supermassive black holes.

$4M NASA grants to support UV and X-ray astronomy
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Fabien Grisé and Jake McCoy
Q&A with Penn State alumna and NASA astrophysicist Jane Rigby
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Jane Rigby
Astronomy students to talk 'oversized' planets with trustees
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Munich and Delamar
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