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03.15.2013 \| Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy, has been elected to an Honorary Professorship for life at the University of Delhi Congratulations!
02.25.2013 \| Yale astrophysicist elected head of American Astronomical Society Astrophysicist C. Megan Urry, Chair of Yale’s Physics Department and Director of the Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been elected the next president of the world’s premier national astronomical society.
02.20.2013 \| Astronomers find smallest known planet — smaller than Mercury A team of scientists including two Yale University astronomers has discovered the smallest planet yet detected.
01.07.2013 \| The Planet Hunters Project has Found and Confirmed a new Planet, PH2 b. Planet Hunters lead scientist Professor Debra Fisher, from Yale University in the US, said: "We are seeing the emergence of a new era in the Planet Hunters project where our volunteers seem to be at least as efficient as the computer algorithms at finding planets orbiting at habitable zone distances from the host stars.

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03.15.2013 \| Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy, has been elected to an Honorary Professorship for life at the University of Delhi Congratulations!
02.25.2013 \| Yale astrophysicist elected head of American Astronomical Society Astrophysicist C. Megan Urry, Chair of Yale’s Physics Department and Director of the Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been elected the next president of the world’s premier national astronomical society.
02.20.2013 \| Astronomers find smallest known planet — smaller than Mercury A team of scientists including two Yale University astronomers has discovered the smallest planet yet detected.
01.07.2013 \| The Planet Hunters Project has Found and Confirmed a new Planet, PH2 b. Planet Hunters lead scientist Professor Debra Fisher, from Yale University in the US, said: "We are seeing the emergence of a new era in the Planet Hunters project where our volunteers seem to be at least as efficient as the computer algorithms at finding planets orbiting at habitable zone distances from the host stars.

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