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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Yang and Stefansson

Two graduate students recognized by the International Astronomical Union

Artist impression of NASA's Kepler space telescope

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

field of stars, with x-ray data in inset

Evidence found for cloaked black hole in early universe

A student in a hard hat standing at a railing overlooking a satellite dish

The Search for Life Beyond Our Planet

illustration of super earth and its star

Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks push super-Earths close to stars

Illustration of a high-mass X-ray binary

Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpy

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope — one of the world’s largest optical telescopes and a premier planet-finding facility, conceived by Penn State astronomers

Penn State set to lead on new exoplanet science priorities

Chris Palma receives award

Palma awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching

Infrared image of neutron star from Hubble Space Telescope

The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron star

Joseph Masiero

NASA scientist to present Friedman Lecture in Astronomy on April 10

Bouldy Mine exterior

Penn State participates in consortium for remote monitoring of nuclear reactors

Randall McEntaffer works on WRX instrument

NASA set to launch Penn State-led experiment

Combined image of many galaxies in the universe, many with a supermassive black hole in the center as depicted by an inset illustration.

Big black holes outpace their galaxies in growth

Photo of the small two-story building raised on short stilts above the vast expanse of Antarctic ice. The building, located above the web of neutrino detectors buried deep in the ice below, protects the IceCube scientists from the harsh weather there.

IceCube research near South Pole reveals how Earth blocks high-energy particles

Artist's illustration of stars throughout the universe, showing the Milky Way in the center

New quest to map stars and galaxies across the entire sky

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