Physical Sciences

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.
Time-Keeping Brain Neurons Discovered
A New Search for Dark Energy Begins
Credit: Dan Long, Apache Point Observatory Photograph of Senior Operations Engineer Dan Long loading the first Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey instrument cartridge of the night into the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope. The cartridge holds a "plug-plate" at the top, which positions a thousand optical fibers (red and blue). These cartridges are locked into the base of the telescope and are changed many times during a night.
Stasto Receives Department of Energy's Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
Anna Stasto
Major Advance Made in Understanding the Birth and Early Evolution of the Universe
Aerial view of LIGO facility in Livingston, Louisiana. Credit: LIGO, California Institute of Technology.
Penn State Astronomers Ranked High in Scientific Impact
Peter Mészáros and Donald Schneider
Unusual Shape of Exploded Star Puzzles Scientists
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S. Park and J. Lee); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomy Team Probes Edge of Supermassive Black Hole
An artist's depiction of the accretion of a thick ring of dust into a supermassive black hole. The accretion produces jets of gamma rays and X-rays. Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC)
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
Credit: D. Fox, A. Cucchiara (Penn State Univ.), E. Berger (Harvard Univ.) and Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA
Mallouk Elected as American Academy Fellow
Tom Mallouk
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