Astronomer paints vivid history of Arecibo Observatory
In a new book, Donald Campbell, Ph.D. ’71, professor emeritus of astronomy, recounts the history of Arecibo from construction to its last days under Cornell’s management in 2011.
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Astronomy News
Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts
The Global Radio Explorer telescope is a series of eight terminals being built and tested at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, and installed at locations around the world.
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Spaceflight-tested menstrual cup offers choice on long missions
To equip astronauts with health choices for future missions, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow is leading research with AstroCup, a group that recently tested two menstrual cups in spaceflight as payload on an uncrewed rocket flight.
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Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Ricco Venterea ’24
"Nexus Scholars was the first time where the only thing I had to worry about was research."
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Portraits honor 8 Cornell faculty as ‘new heroes’
The portraits are part of a series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
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How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds
Cornell researchers have created the first reflectance spectra – a color-coded key – of microorganisms that live in the clouds floating above Earth’s surface.
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Now in 3D, maps begin to bring exoplanets into focus 
Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones – one so scorching that it breaks down water vapor, a team co-led by a Cornell expert reports in new research.
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Cornell physicists update catalog of binary black holes
These simulations, developed with significant input from Cornell researchers using code written at Cornell, help scientists analyze gravitational waves observed by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors located in the U.S., Italy and Japan.
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