Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
- Assistant Professor Meredith MacGregor and NIST Physicist Jake Connors taught their graduate students how to build and use radio horn antennas to locate neutral hydrogen in space.
- Doug Duncan, former director of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Fiske Planetarium, developed the Solar Snap with today’s smartphone cameras in mind.
- The Research and Innovation Office has announced the 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 17 faculty members from departments and research institutes spanning the campus.
- These faculty are being recognized for their outstanding records in teaching, service and leadership.
- When the Orion Crew Capsule orbits the Moon there will be no one on board. But the mission will mark a key step in bringing humans back to Earth’s dusty sidekick.
- Astrophysicist John Bally takes a look at the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope—an instrument that is gazing farther into space and time than anything ever built by humans.
- ‘I love the idea that this basic principle that Einstein told us about a long time ago is something you can see,’ ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· astrophysicist says.
- This grant will be used to produce full dome videos that will educate the public on NASA’s latest scientific endeavors including two upcoming solar eclipses.
- Astrophysicists have discovered a 5.4 billion-year-old megamaser—a beam of laser-like light that emerged when two galaxies crashed into each other
- New astronomy program features ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· interns giving Rocky Mountain National Park visitors a tour of the night skies.