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05.16.2012 | The Ancient Massive Galaxy Mystery -- 80 percent Appear Extremely Active and Growing
Former Yale postdoc Danilo Marchesini and collaborators revealed that some of the most massive galaxies in the Universe may have formed billions of years earlier than the current models predicted. The identified galaxies were five to ten times more massive than our own Milky Way. 		NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory image above of the distant galaxy 3C295
05.15.2012 | Chasing Galaxies - The Legacy of "Brian Tinsley's clever wife"
But what if a galaxy gets either brighter or fainter with age? What if it changes its shape from eon to eon? Then all bets are off, and the universe’s destiny is far harder to determine in this way. Cosmologists learned this unhappy fact—galaxies change!—by the 1970s, and the person primarily responsible for establishing it was Beatrice Tinsley. 		Beatrice Tinsely at Yale 1977
05.14.2012 | Astronomy Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been Inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the ninth annual Bouchet Leadership Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education, held at Yale in March.
05.01.2012 | ‘Ridiculously’ Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way
Former Yale postdoc Ricardo Munoz has discovered the least luminous globular cluster around the Milky Way, hinting that many more such globular clusters may soon be discovered. 		The Muñoz 1 globular cluster is seen to the right of the Ursa Minor dwarf galaxy in this image from the Canada-France-Hawaii Tel
04.17.2012 | Professor Debra Fischer is One of Six Yale Faculty Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Six Yale faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 		fischer113.jpg
03.30.2012 | When Dark Energy Turned On
MANCHESTER, UK — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) today announced the most accurate measurements yet of the distances to galaxies in the faraway universe, giving an unprecedented look at the time when the universe first began to expand at an ever-increasing rate. Included on the BOSS team of scientists and engineers is Nikhil Padmanabhan of Yale University. 		SDSSIIINikil.bspec.jpg
03.19.2012 | Yale physicist Daisuke Nagai has been named a 2012 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Nagai’s research focuses on computational modeling of galaxy clusters — the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. The formation of these objects is driven by dark matter and dark energy. Supercomputer simulations developed by Nagai’s group will be used to interpret properties of these enigmatic but dominant components of the universe. 		Daisuke_Nagai_Pic1.jpg
01.20.2012 | Dr. Christian Schwab Awarded a Prestigious Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Schwab's proposal described innovative technology design and development to push radial velocity precision towards 10 cm/s here in the Yale Exoplanet Lab.
01.19.2012 | C. Megan Urry 2012 Recipient of The George Van Biesbroeck Prize
The George Van Biesbroeck Prize honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy. 		Meg Urry
01.19.2012 | Adele Plunkett, Astronomy Graduate Student, is a 2012 Recipient of a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award
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 or, in the case of honorable mention, a certificate.

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