News | Archives 2009

10.21.2009 \| Popular Science just named Marla Geha one of its “Brilliant 10" Popular Science just named her one of its “Brilliant 10" — but for Marla Geha, the brilliance is all about the stars that don’t shine.
10.02.2009 \| Two Day Workshop Devoted to Yale/WIYN One Degree Image Survey The Yale Astronomy Department organized a two-day workshop on October 2-3, 2009 devoted to the Yale/WIYN One Degree Imager Survey.
09.08.2009 \| YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for the YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Astronomy and Astrophysics, to be awarded to a young scientist of exceptional ability who will have received her/his Ph.D. by June 2010 in observational, theoretical, or experimental astronomy or astrophysics/cosmology...
08.05.2009 \| Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way.
07.27.2009 \| Galaxy Zoo Discovers New Group of Galaxies: 'Green Peas' Citizen scientists from the Galaxy Zoo project have discovered rare galaxies they're calling the “Green Peas.” They're small in size, bright green in color, and proficient at churning out new stars — plus, they could reveal unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe.
06.30.2009 \| Largest Ever Survey of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, “SpARCS” detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.
06.03.2009 \| Priya Natarajan Granted Tenure Congratulations Priya!
05.19.2009 \| Kathy Vivas has been Awarded the Premio Fundacion Polar Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Prize Kathy Vivas, who received her Ph.D. here in 2002, has been awarded...
05.18.2009 \| Cosmology's best standard candles get even better Members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), a collaboration among the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a consortium of French laboratories, and Yale University...
05.17.2009 \| The Astronomy Department Acquires A Model of Galileo's Telescope The astronomy department commissioned an artist in Italy to make a replica of one of Galileo’s telescopes to use for demonstrations at the observatory, and Ivano Dalprete (from the History of Science department) recently brought it back from Italy for us.
05.11.2009 \| Bethany Cobb is awarded the 2009 Dirk Brouwer Prize in Astronomy! The Brouwer Prize in Astronomy is awarded to a graduate student who has made a contribution of unusual merit to astronomy.
04.09.2009 \| Congratulations go out to Priya Natarajan! In its eighty-fifth annual competition for the United States and Canada the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates, one being Priya Natarajan, were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
04.08.2009 \| Numbering the stars After 44 years of research at an observatory in the foothills of the Andes, astronomers are nearing the end of a monumental undertaking: tracking the motion of 100 million stars.
03.26.2009 \| Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo, a distributed computing project in which laypeople can help researchers characterize galaxies.
03.06.2009 \| Yale Astronomers Eager for Kepler Spacecraft Data New Haven, Conn. — When NASA's Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.
03.05.2009 \| MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Scientist Available to Speak About NASA’s Kepler Mission New Haven, Conn. — Yale astronomer Sarbani Basu will be available to speak with the media about her role in NASA’s Kepler mission to search for Earth-like planets before it launches on Friday.
03.04.2009 \| Congratulations to Shanil Virani for being Awarded a Chambliss Medal and Certificate at the January AAS Conference "The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal and a Certificate."
02.25.2009 \| Yale Astronomers Star Gaze in Hawaii Yale astronomers can stargaze from an observatory on Prospect Street — or, as of last month, from the top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
02.25.2009 \| Congratulations to Kevin Schawinski for being named as one of 2009's Einstein Fellows! NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships.
02.20.2009 \| Planetarium Will Take Public on Journeys Through the Cosmos New Haven, Conn. — You don't have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even leaving their seats at Yale's new planetarium.
02.20.2009 \| Probing The Grandest Questions In Modern Astrophysics In an unprecedented investment in astronomy at Yale, the university has entered into a new partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that will give it access to one of the world's premier observatories.
02.06.2009 \| Charles Bailyn Is Honored for Work Measuring Galactic Black Holes New Haven, Conn. — How do you weigh something you can't even see? Charles Bailyn, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics, knows how to do it.
01.21.2009 \| Verdict: Supermassive Black Holes Not Guilty of Shutting Down Star Formation A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation.
01.14.2009 \| New planetarium to open next week The building at 353 Prospect St. has three domes. Two of them house telescopes, but the third — and largest — houses the entire universe.

Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA

10.21.2009 \| Popular Science just named Marla Geha one of its “Brilliant 10" Popular Science just named her one of its “Brilliant 10" — but for Marla Geha, the brilliance is all about the stars that don’t shine.
10.02.2009 \| Two Day Workshop Devoted to Yale/WIYN One Degree Image Survey The Yale Astronomy Department organized a two-day workshop on October 2-3, 2009 devoted to the Yale/WIYN One Degree Imager Survey.
09.08.2009 \| YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for the YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Astronomy and Astrophysics, to be awarded to a young scientist of exceptional ability who will have received her/his Ph.D. by June 2010 in observational, theoretical, or experimental astronomy or astrophysics/cosmology...
08.05.2009 \| Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way.
07.27.2009 \| Galaxy Zoo Discovers New Group of Galaxies: 'Green Peas' Citizen scientists from the Galaxy Zoo project have discovered rare galaxies they're calling the “Green Peas.” They're small in size, bright green in color, and proficient at churning out new stars — plus, they could reveal unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe.
06.30.2009 \| Largest Ever Survey of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, “SpARCS” detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.
06.03.2009 \| Priya Natarajan Granted Tenure Congratulations Priya!
05.19.2009 \| Kathy Vivas has been Awarded the Premio Fundacion Polar Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Prize Kathy Vivas, who received her Ph.D. here in 2002, has been awarded...
05.18.2009 \| Cosmology's best standard candles get even better Members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), a collaboration among the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a consortium of French laboratories, and Yale University...
05.17.2009 \| The Astronomy Department Acquires A Model of Galileo's Telescope The astronomy department commissioned an artist in Italy to make a replica of one of Galileo’s telescopes to use for demonstrations at the observatory, and Ivano Dalprete (from the History of Science department) recently brought it back from Italy for us.
05.11.2009 \| Bethany Cobb is awarded the 2009 Dirk Brouwer Prize in Astronomy! The Brouwer Prize in Astronomy is awarded to a graduate student who has made a contribution of unusual merit to astronomy.
04.09.2009 \| Congratulations go out to Priya Natarajan! In its eighty-fifth annual competition for the United States and Canada the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates, one being Priya Natarajan, were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
04.08.2009 \| Numbering the stars After 44 years of research at an observatory in the foothills of the Andes, astronomers are nearing the end of a monumental undertaking: tracking the motion of 100 million stars.
03.26.2009 \| Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo, a distributed computing project in which laypeople can help researchers characterize galaxies.
03.06.2009 \| Yale Astronomers Eager for Kepler Spacecraft Data New Haven, Conn. — When NASA's Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.
03.05.2009 \| MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Scientist Available to Speak About NASA’s Kepler Mission New Haven, Conn. — Yale astronomer Sarbani Basu will be available to speak with the media about her role in NASA’s Kepler mission to search for Earth-like planets before it launches on Friday.
03.04.2009 \| Congratulations to Shanil Virani for being Awarded a Chambliss Medal and Certificate at the January AAS Conference "The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal and a Certificate."
02.25.2009 \| Yale Astronomers Star Gaze in Hawaii Yale astronomers can stargaze from an observatory on Prospect Street — or, as of last month, from the top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
02.25.2009 \| Congratulations to Kevin Schawinski for being named as one of 2009's Einstein Fellows! NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships.
02.20.2009 \| Planetarium Will Take Public on Journeys Through the Cosmos New Haven, Conn. — You don't have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even leaving their seats at Yale's new planetarium.
02.20.2009 \| Probing The Grandest Questions In Modern Astrophysics In an unprecedented investment in astronomy at Yale, the university has entered into a new partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that will give it access to one of the world's premier observatories.
02.06.2009 \| Charles Bailyn Is Honored for Work Measuring Galactic Black Holes New Haven, Conn. — How do you weigh something you can't even see? Charles Bailyn, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics, knows how to do it.
01.21.2009 \| Verdict: Supermassive Black Holes Not Guilty of Shutting Down Star Formation A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation.
01.14.2009 \| New planetarium to open next week The building at 353 Prospect St. has three domes. Two of them house telescopes, but the third — and largest — houses the entire universe.

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