News | Archives 2008
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12.12.2008 |
New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes New Haven, Conn. — Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale's Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. |
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10.07.2008 |
Big Galaxy Collisions Can Stunt Star Formation A deep new image of the Virgo cluster has revealed monumental tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000 light-years long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 and the distributed spiral galaxy NGC4438. |
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09.18.2008 |
Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe A team led by a Yale University astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. |
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09.04.2008 |
Yale Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist. |
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08.05.2008 |
“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky. Yale University Press Release |
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06.06.2008 |
Stars in Motion: A Symposium in Honor of Bill van Altena The Yale Astronomy Department will hold a weekend symposium honoring the career of Bill van Altena, to be held at Yale University on September 20th and 21st, 2008. |
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04.30.2008 |
Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. |
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Archives
2013
02.25.2013 | Yale astrophysicist elected head of American Astronomical Society
02.20.2013 | Astronomers find smallest known planet — smaller than Mercury
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2012
11.28.2012 | Astrometry for Astrophysics: Methods, Models, and Applications by William F. van Altena , Yale Professor Emeritus
11.16.2012 | Google Uses Yale's Bright Star Catalog for its 100,000 Stars Project
11.09.2012 | Frontiers in Star Formation conference held at Yale
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2011
12.01.2011 | Yale discovery of ‘young’ supermassive black holes challenges current theory
10.27.2011 | Profs scour Hawaiian sky
09.23.2011 | 6 planets announced by the Yale Exoplanet Group
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2010
12.20.2010 | Priyamvada Natarajan Elected A Fellow of the American Physical Society
12.20.2010 | Named One of the Best NASA Photos of the Year by The New Yorker : Priyamvada Natarajan et al.
12.16.2010 | Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets
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2009
10.21.2009 | Popular Science just named Marla Geha one of its “Brilliant 10"
10.02.2009 | Two Day Workshop Devoted to Yale/WIYN One Degree Image Survey
09.08.2009 | YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship
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2008
12.12.2008 | New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes
10.07.2008 | Big Galaxy Collisions Can Stunt Star Formation
09.18.2008 | Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe
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2007
04.09.2007 | E. Dorrit Hoffleit
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