Mystery solved: Super-energetic space particles crash to Earth from far, far away
Graduate students from the Miguel Mostafá Lab, visiting the 1600th detector of the large Pierre Auger Observatory array in western Argentina. Credit: Miguel Mostafá, Penn State.
NASA selects Arcus for Phase A studies
An artist's rendering showing the Arcus telescope, a proposed X-ray mission concept that has been selected for a Phase A study as part of the $250 million NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) program. Credit: SAO/Orbital ATK
Penn State gearing up for 2017 solar eclipse event
This unique map shows the path of the moon’s umbral shadow—in which the sun will be completely obscured by the moon—during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, as well as the fraction of the sun’s area covered by the moon outside the path of totality. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Postdoc Society names 2017 Outstanding Mentor and Outstanding Postdoc awardees
Suvrath Mahadevan and F. Joseph Pollock. Credit: Penn State
AstroFest 2017 is Four Evenings of Astronomy Activities and Stargazing During Arts Festival
Observatory on the roof of Davey Lab
New way to weigh a white dwarf: Use Hubble Space Telescope
This drawing shows the observed versus actual positions of a distant star whose light is distorted by the curvature of space around a heavy star that is between the distant star and the observer. In this case, the observer is the Hubble Space Telescope. Credits: NASA, ESA, and K. Sahu (STScI)
New planet found to be hotter than most stars
A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot that even its nights are like the flame of a welding torch. Planet KELT-9b is hotter than most stars. With a day-side temperature of more than 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,600 Kelvin), it is only about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 Kelvin) cooler than our own sun. Credit: R. Hurt (IPAC), NASA/JPL-Caltech
New gravity waves hit Earth after record-breaking trip through space
This artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
Charlton honored with inaugural Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award
Jane Charlton
Mysterious cosmic explosion surprises astronomers studying the distant x-ray universe
Animation showing the variability of the discovered flaring X-ray source. The intensity of the source increased more than 1000 times and then declined to invisibility over a period of a few hours. CREDIT: NASA/CXC/F. Bauer et al.
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