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Come join us for Astrofest starting tonight, Wednesday July 8 through Saturday July 11 from 8:30 - 11:30 pm in Davey Lab!!
AstroFest is back again for the 27th year! 🔭🌙
Join our Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics every evening from July 8 to 11 and listen to talks, watch planetarium shows, and look at the night sky through telescopes.
Learn more: bit.ly/4faD0uY
#PennStateAstro
ALT AstroFest volunteer showing off a display to AstroFest attendees.
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Today, @NASA's mission to boost the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory officially began. 🚀🛰️
To begin the mission, a @NorthropGrumman rocket launched LINK, a robotic servicing spacecraft built by Katalyst Space, and it will take about a month to reach and rendezvous with Swift.
Astrofest starts tonight from 8:30 - 11:30 pm in Davey Lab!!! Here's tonight's program of activities.
Come check out Astrofest Wednesday - Saturday this week! 8:30 - 11:30 pm at Davey Lab. @PSUScience
science.psu.edu/news/astrofe…
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Congrats to David Radice, associate professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, for receiving a Sustainment Award from @NASA!
This award will provide a $920,000 grant to advance an open-source code called AthenaK for computational astrophysicists.
ALT Headshot of David Radice
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
In the latest AAS Journal Author Series video, Noah Tuchow (@NASAGoddard) and Jason Wright (Penn State) chat about habitability: youtube.com/watch?v=1xY2Lzs5…
This series connects authors with their article, their human story, and the larger #astronomy community. #ExploreAstronomy
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
One of the most luminous nova eruptions have been spotted by astronomers on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory team, including Penn State scientists. Thomas Gaudin, a graduate student and first author of the paper, described this experience.
Read more at bit.ly/40wRmie
ALT Image of a satellite in space that represents the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
A new study has revealed brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula using photos from @NASA's Hubble Space Telescope decades ago.
Read more about this work done by Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and a team of researchers. bit.ly/4hsqQwE
ALT Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken by NASA. Expanded images of different proplyds are shown highlighted to see the protoplanetary disk and brown dwarf.
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
While Penn State researchers at the @SETIInstitute didn't find evidence of extraterrestrial technology, their work introduced a new way to search for signals in the future. 🌎
Read more about this work: bit.ly/4hgSYTo
#PennStateAstro
ALT Illustration of planets and the sun to show communication between planets beyond our solar system looking from the perspective of Earth.
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Chad Hanna, professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, and his research team are working to discover astrophysical events that were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916. 🔭
Read more about this research at bit.ly/48lQ1wY
#PennStatePhysics #PennStateAstro
ALT An artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars.
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Join us for a free lecture featuring Sara Seager, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the @MIT, on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.
Read more at bit.ly/4dQiVWX
#PennStateAstro
ALT Headshot of Sara Seager
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Research from earlier this year is taking off and being recognized by @spacedotcom!
David Radice, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, whose recent work on neutron stars was published in June, was quoted in this new article.
bit.ly/4dGA99U
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Our very own Chris Palma, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, joined Accuweather to discuss stargazing after summer. 💫
Check out his segment here: bit.ly/3Zfj7vn
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
We are so proud of our graduate students who have been awarded research fellowships and our undergraduate students who have been awarded scholarships from @PASpaceGrant. 🚀
Read more about these star students at bit.ly/47ltO1q 🌟
ALT NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium text over a galaxy background
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
The entire community at the Eberly College of Science would like to congratulate Jogesh Babu, distinguished professor of statistics and of astronomy and astrophysics, on his retirement from Penn State.
Read more at bit.ly/3B1lSWY
#PennStateStats #PennStateAstro
ALT Headshot of Jogesh Babu
PSU Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics retweeted
Stars, galaxies, and black holes, oh my! 🌟🌌
Joel Leja, Lee M. Hammarstrom-Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Endowed Early Career Professor of astronomy and astrophysics, speak about the James Webb Space Telescope and its discoveries to the Village at Penn State.
#PennStateAstro
ALT Joel Leja speaking to residents at the Village at Penn State
ALT Residents at the Village at Penn State listening to Joel Leja speak
ALT An array of space-themed cookies
ALT Large crowed of residents from the Village at Penn State listening to Joel Leja present
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