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J.J. Zanazzi, Ph.D. ’18, has been selected for a 2022 51 Pegasi b Fellowship, which provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
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At a dizzying elevation in Chile, two astronomers had only hours left to collect data from light that had taken 11.5 billion years to reach Earth.
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As ground-based and space telescopes improve, astronomers need a color-coded guide to compare Earth’s biological microbes to cold, distant exoplanets to grasp their composition.
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After a European spacecraft rendezvoused with Comet 67P about seven years ago, astronomers now have found a cosmic revelation: It emits molecular oxygen drawn from its nucleus.
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"These outstanding physicists and mathematicians are pushing the boundaries of our understanding," said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
/news/six-professors-named-2022-simons-fellowsAstronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project this morning debuted the first direct image of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 54 million light-years away. The image revealed the shadow of the supermassive black hole surrounded by an asymmetric ring of bright emission from the hot gas swirling around it....
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Eight graduate students, including four studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, were awarded 2022 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships.
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For the past year, two Cornell doctoral students have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.
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Astronomer and artist Tyler Nordgren, PhD ’97, trains rangers to lead stargazing programs and immortalizes parks in 1930s-style travel posters.
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Cornell students, including some from Arts and Sciences, have begun building the final version of Alpha CubeSat – a small satellite that will carry a first-of-its-kind light sail, hologram-embossed solar panels and several other new techniques for deep-space travel.
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