Mysterious Planet-like Object Challenges Simple Definition, Reveals Its Surprising Identity
Artwork Credit: Gemini Observatory, courtesy of L. Cook
Discovery of Earliest Known Black Holes
Image credit: European Space Agency and Wolfram Freudling (Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility/European Southern Observatory, Germany)
Brandt Named Fellow of American Physical Society
Niel Brandt
Astronomers Discover Ancient Galaxies Coming Together after Billions of Years
Astronomers Discover Ancient Galaxies Coming Together after Billions of Years
Niel Brandt Named Distinguished Professor
Niel Brandt
Stellar Detective
Credit: Penn State Research
Brown Dwarf Pair Mystifies Astronomers
Credit: NASA Artist's rendition of a brown dwarf and its moon orbiting a triple star system.
Boy Scouts Explore Space at Penn State
Astronomy lecturer Chris Palma tells a scout troop about different telescopes in the Davey Lab rooftop observatory.
Rare Space Experiment Gives Clues About the Fundamental Structure of the Universe
In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Some theorists predict travel delays for higher-energy photons, which interact more strongly with the proposed frothy nature of space-time. Yet Fermi data on two photons from a gamma-ray burst fail to show this effect, eliminating some approaches to a new theory of gravity. Credit: NASA/Sanoma State University/Aurore Simonnet
Blast from the Past Gives Clues About Early Universe
The NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) telescope is located on the Plains of San Agustin, about 80 kilometers west of the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico.
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