Placing High-Redshift Quasars in Perspective: a Gemini Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Survey

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Placing High-Redshift Quasars in Perspective: a Gemini Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Survey
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New Frontiers in Precision Eclipsing Binary Science with Space Telescopes

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A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black-Hole Growth

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A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black-Hole Growth
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Coronal rain on a cold star?
Solar flare with coronal rain on the Sun

Observations of a stellar flare with Penn State's Habitable-zone Planet Finder could be the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool M-dwarf

A Mars-sized planet orbiting extremely close to its host star
Artists depiction showing comparison of KOI-4777 to Earth-Sun

Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star validated as a planet using the Penn State Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Quasars, Black Holes, and a Cosmological Conundrum
Yuexing Li, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics

A quest for the origin of the most-distant quasars in the early universe

Penn State Alumnus Takes Photos from Mars
Curiosity rover on rocky surface of Mars

Penn State astronomy graduate takes photos from Mars by controlling NASA's Curiosity rover.

Black holes of all shapes and sizes in new gravitational wave catalog
Chart of masses of gravitational wave sources

Penn State astronomers in the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have contributed to the largest catalog of gravitational wave events to date.

To the stars: Aerospace engineering students find a home in astrophysics lab
Baker and McCormick in front of Davey Building
Eberly’s undergraduate research exhibition a success
Eberly Diversity in STEM Corporate Partners Program logo

Spotlight on student science excellence, Latinx faculty

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