News | Archives 2011
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12.01.2011 |
Yale discovery of ‘young’ supermassive black holes challenges current theory Astronomers at Yale University have discovered what appear to be three fast-growing supermassive black holes in a relatively young, still-forming galaxy. |
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10.27.2011 |
Profs scour Hawaiian sky Astronomy professor Debra Fischer has spent some early mornings this fall peering into the Hawaiian night sky in search of new planets, using one of the world’s largest telescopes. But she has done so without leaving campus. |
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09.23.2011 |
6 planets announced by the Yale Exoplanet Group The Yale Exoplanet Group recently announced 6 planets that were previously unknown, 5 of which were in multi-planet systems. |
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09.22.2011 |
2 probable planets found by people like you So far, there are about 40,000 users of Planet Hunters across the U.S. and about 90 other countries. It’s intuitive and simple enough that even a child could use it. Teachers are already using it in the classroom, said Debra Fischer, Yale University. |
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08.08.2011 |
The Fate of the First Black Hole Now astronomers Krzysztof Belczynski and Tomasz Bulik of the University of Warsaw and Charles Bailyn of Yale University have used the precise new parameters for Cygnus X-1 to predict its fate. |
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07.26.2011 |
Asteroid named in honor of Michele Dufault (1988-2011) Asteroid (15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4 is official, published in the 2011 July 15 batch of Minor Planet Circulars. It appears as follows on MPC 75548: (15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4 Discovered 1994 Jan. 5 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. |
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06.20.2011 |
Astronomers Discover That Galaxies Are Either Asleep or Awake Astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any new stars at all. “The fact that we see such young galaxies in the distant universe that have already shut off is remarkable,” said Kate Whitaker, a Yale University graduate student and lead author of the paper, which is published in the June 20 online edition of the Astrophysical Journal. |
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06.14.2011 |
CHANDRA FINDS NEW VORACIOUS BLACK HOLES IN EARLY UNIVERSE "Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers have found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early Universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the growth of their host galaxies. "Most astronomers think in the present-day Universe, black holes and galaxies are somehow symbiotic in how they grow," said Priya Natarajan, a co-author from Yale University. "We have shown that this codependent relationship has existed from very early times.” |
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05.17.2011 |
Yale and Patricia and Peter Gruber Announce Establishment of the Gruber Foundation at Yale The Gruber Foundation will continue to award three $500,000 Gruber Prizes each year in the physical and life sciences, including a Cosmology Prize, a Genetics Prize, and a Neuroscience Prize, and maintain the Gruber Young Scientists Awards. Considered among the most prestigious awards in the sciences, the prizes honor contemporary individuals whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge. |
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04.19.2011 |
Marla Geha honored by UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz names Marla Geha one of five up and coming alumni |
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03.31.2011 |
Charles Bailyn will serve as the inaugural Dean of the Faculty at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore. The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University announced today that they will establish Yale-NUS College, an autonomous college of NUS. |
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03.04.2011 |
Mount Tinsley recognizes Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981), Professor of Astronomy at Yale University 1975-1981 Mount Tinsley recognizes Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981), graduate of Canterbury University, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University and a world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians in modern astronomy. |
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02.09.2011 |
Congratulations to Frank van den Bosch, Houjun Mo, and Simon White for winning the 2010 PROSE Award Frank van den Bosch, Houjun Mo, and Simon White have been awarded the 2010 PROSE Award for their new textbook titled, Galaxy Formation and Evolution, published by Cambridge University Press. |
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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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