Speeding Star Gives New Clues to Breakup of Multi-Star System
Scale and Compass Image for the Orion Nebula -- Credit: NASA, ESA, and STSci
“CosmoQuest: You can help discover our universe" is the Friedman Lecture on March 28, 2017
Pamela Gay
NSF funds supercomputer cluster at Penn State
An external view of the Tower Road Data Center that will house the CyberLAMP computer cluster (upper left). The new high-performance computing cores mounted in their racks (upper right). The new DataDirect Networks active storage for data that is accessed often (lower left). The inside of new Oracle tape storage system, used for backups of active data (lower right). Credit: Penn State University.
Three from Eberly College of Science awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships
Michael DeGiorgio, Kin Fai Mak, Kohta Murase
Mostafá and Dykstra awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching
Miguel Mostafá, Sheryl Dykstra
Coutu and Mostafá Elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society
Stephane Coutu, Miguel Mostafá
Rebekah Dawson awarded Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Rebekah Dawson
A tale of two pulsars' tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers
An artist’s representation of what the three unusual tails of the pulsar Geminga may look like close up. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving astronomers a better look at pulsars and their associated pulsar wind nebulae, enabling new constraints on the geometry of pulsars and why they look the way they do from Earth. Credit: Illustrations by Nahks TrEhnl
Deepest x-ray image ever reveals black hole treasure trove
The image is from the Chandra Deep Field-South. The full field covers an approximately circular region on the sky with an area about two-thirds that of the full Moon. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B. Luo et al
Hobby-Eberly Telescope to be Rededicated
hobby eberly telescope
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