News | Archives 2010
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12.20.2010 |
Priyamvada Natarajan Elected A Fellow of the American Physical Society For key contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology: mapping dark matter and tracing the accretion history of black holes... |
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12.20.2010 |
Named One of the Best NASA Photos of the Year by The New Yorker : Priyamvada Natarajan et al. This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light years away. |
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12.16.2010 |
Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets New Haven, Conn. — Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org. |
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12.01.2010 |
How Many Stars? Three Times as Many as We Thought, Report Says Scientists said Wednesday that the number of stars in the universe had been seriously undercounted, and they estimated that there could be three times as many stars out there as had been thought. |
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11.03.2010 |
Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow of Dead Quasar While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch school teacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two years later, a team led by Yale University researchers has discovered that the unique object represents a snapshot in time that reveals surprising clues about the life cycle of black holes... |
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10.28.2010 |
Charles Bailyn appointed the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor Congratulations Charles! Charles Bailyn has been named the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy. |
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10.28.2010 |
Study says solar systems like ours may be common Kamuela, HI, Oct. 28, 2010 - Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-size planets, according to observations of nearby solar-mass stars made with the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. |
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08.19.2010 |
Astronomers Use Galactic Magnifying Lens to Probe Elusive Dark Energy A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, their results significantly improve current measurements of the mass and energy content of the universe. The findings appear in the August 20 issue of the journal Science. |
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08.11.2010 |
YALE JOINS SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY COLLABORATION We would like to formally announce that Yale has joined the SDSS-III collaboration. Yale will pay $900K for full institutional membership, which extends through mid-2014. We are grateful to the Yale Provost's office for providing funding. |
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06.17.2010 |
Astronomers Witness Star Birth Astronomers have glimpsed into the earliest stages of star formation, and have seen what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. |
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05.23.2010 |
Astronomer Wins a Women in Space Science Award New Haven, Conn. — Yale astronomer C. Megan Urry has won the annual Women in Space Science Award, given by the Women's Board of the Adler Planetarium to "an outstanding woman in space science who exemplifies the characteristics that lead to success academically and in the work force." |
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05.18.2010 |
Eric Murphy has been awarded the Dirk Brower Prize for 2010 ~ Congratulations! Eric Murphy has been awarded the Dirk Brouwer Prize for 2010, for his PhD thesis (2007) research, "Star Formation, Dust Heating, and Cosmic Ray Electron Cooling:A Far-Infrared and Radio Study of Nearby Galaxies". |
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03.25.2010 |
After Growth Spurt, Supermassive Black Holes Spend Half Their Lives Veiled in Dust Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express. |
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03.16.2010 |
Super Supernova: White Dwarf Star System Exceeds Mass Limit An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be an upper mass limit. Their findings, which appear online and will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, could affect the way cosmologists measure the expansion of the universe. |
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03.06.2010 |
Congratulations to Priya Natarajan Congratulations to Professor Priya Natarajan for receiving the `Face of the Future' Award for 2009 given by the India Abroad Foundation. |
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02.16.2010 |
Congratulations to Professor Marla Geha Congratulations to Professor Marla Geha for winning a 2010 Sloan Fellowship! |
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01.08.2010 |
Second smallest exoplanet found to date discovered at Keck The new discovery will aid in solving the puzzle of how planets and planetary systems form and evolve. |
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01.05.2010 |
Deepest Image of Universe Yet Reveals Most Distant Galaxies Ever Found An international team of astronomers has used the Hubble Space Telescope to take the deepest image of the universe ever, revealing the farthest and youngest known galaxies. The results, which could offer insights into how the first galaxies formed and evolved after the Big Bang, are being presented Jan. 5 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. |
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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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