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First University of Minnesota-built Small Satellite Launches
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When launched, SOCRATES will be the first small satellite built by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities to go into space.
Fortson Receives Nicholson Medal for Outreach
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The Nicholson Medal recognizes the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists created through public lectures and public media, teaching, research, or science related activities.
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.
Bagley wins STAR Prize
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Graduate Student Micaela Bagley received the Euclid Special Talent And Recognition (STAR) Prize.
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.
The Award Rejection that Shook Astronomy
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Professor Roberta Humphreys reflects on Margaret Burbidge's 1971 decision to decline the Annie Jump Cannon Award, an act that forced the astronomy community to reconsider the prize and examine discrimination against women in the field.
What Stars Will Hatch From The Tarantula Nebula? NASA’s Flying Observatory Seeks to Find Out
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Researchers from the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, led by graduate student Michael Gordon, flew on NASA's flying telescope, SOFIA, to identify and characterize the brightness, ages and dust content of three young star-forming regions within our galactic satellite, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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.
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.
Probing a Planetary System Like Ours
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The extraordinary sensitivity of the LBT has revealed the architecture of a young stellar system whose structure promises to shed light on how our own solar system formed and help answer questions about the number and locations of Earth-like planets.