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Minnesota Astrophysicists Help Spot Rare Stellar Collision
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Professors Charles Woodward and Robert Gehrz are part of the ALMA collaboration that discovered the object, long thought to be a nova, is actually a remnant of a rare type of solar collision.
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The Farthest Star Helps Probe Dark Matter
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Assistant Professor Patrick Kelly led a team of researchers that set a distance record and discovered the farthest individual star ever seen.
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Long-standing Supernova Mystery Solved
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Professors Roberta Humphreys and Kris Davidson and graduate student Michael Gordon in the School of Physics and Astronomy and their collaborator Schuyler Van Dyk at Caltech have solved the 63-year-old mystery of a supernova that wasn’t.
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Space Physicist to provide exciting research opportunities for students
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Lindsay Glesener is a faculty member in the School of Physics and Astronomy, studying high energy events in the Sun.