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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Uncovering galaxies buried in dust at the cosmic dawn

Uncovering galaxies buried in dust at the cosmic dawn

A schematic picture of hot accretion flows around a supermassive black hole.

Gamma-rays and neutrinos from mellow supermassive black holes

Sofia Sheikh

Graduate alumna awarded NSF MPS-Ascend Fellowship to work at the SETI Institute

two showing dead galaxies and two boxes with closeups

Early, massive galaxies running on empty

Schematic engineering drawing of the Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope

Penn State astrophysicist to lead $5.8 million NASA CubeSat mission

An artistic view of Athena space observatory.

NASA approves $4 million in funding for Penn State led ATHENA consortium

Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Astronomy graduate alumnus receives Robert J. Trumpler Award

silhouette of Vera Rubin Observatory

Astrophysicists, social scientists to probe the universe's deepest mysteries

blue blobs representing neutron stars merge, with red dots in the middle

New multi-institution hub to explore nuclear physics and cosmic mergers

Illustration of a bright flare of X-ray emission and its echoes

First detection of light echoes from behind a black hole

The planetary nebula NGC 7294

Needle in a haystack: Finding planetary nebulae in distant galaxies

NEID’s spectroscopic observations of the Sun showing coverage extending beyond visible light represented by colors of rainbow

From the sun to the stars: A journey of exoplanet discovery begins

Celebrating IceCube Neutrino Observatory's first decade of discovery

Celebrating IceCube Neutrino Observatory's first decade of discovery

Randy McEntaffer

Randall McEntaffer named head of Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

glowing neutron star approaches black hole, with colorful swirl around it

Elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars confirmed for first time

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